For some, an image of a creepy robot that moves, walks and swims in the same way as a salamander will be the stuff of nightmares, but this bizarre looking bot does have a significant purpose. Created ...

A group of European researchers has developed a spinal cord model of the salamander and implemented it in a novel amphibious salamander-like robot. The robot changes its speed and gait in response to ...

Scientists in Europe have created a robotic salamander that uses an amphibian type central nervous system to switch from swimming to walking as it crawls onto land out of water. The “Salamandra ...

The first animal to crawl onto land from the ocean probably resembled today’s salamander, and researchers have wondered how it switched from swimming to walking. Now European scientists have built a ...

Pleurobot is a salamander-like robot that its developers say is the most accurate robotic representation of an amphibian ever created. Matthew Stock took it through its paces.

Scientists have fashioned a walking, swimming, slithering robot that mimics a salamander, the amphibian thought to bear close resemblance to the first land-dwelling vertebrates. If you're enjoying ...

WASHINGTON — The first animal to crawl onto land from the ocean probably looked a bit like today’s salamander, and researchers have wondered how it was able to switch from swimming to walking. Now, ...

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A French-Swiss team is using a robot to figure out how early reptiles walked, slithered and swam. "By mimicking the nervous system and the movements of the salamander, the team hoped "to decode ...