Springtails, small bugs often found crawling through leaf litter and garden soil, are expert jumpers. Inspired by these hopping hexapods, roboticists in the Harvard John A. Paulson School of ...

It is hypothesized that the ancestors of terrestrial insects initially fed on algae that advanced onto land simultaneously. Jumping bristletails retained many primitive traits, such as their ...

You may not know what a springtail is but man, those little things can jump! Scientists have now copied the creatures' jumping mechanism in a small robot that could one day explore places that people ...