It flaps its ears and squirts water from a waving trunk, but this elephant is a life-size mechanical replica rolled out to replace the endangered animals in India's Hindu temples. Made of fibreglass ...

A cheetah’s powerful sprint, a snake’s lithe slither, or a human’s deft grasp: each is made possible by the seamless interplay between soft and rigid tissues. Muscles, tendons, ligaments, and bones ...

A cute robot elephant could be the future of robotics. The scaled-down jumbo has been built to demonstrate a cutting-edge bioinspired 3D printing technology. Researchers at EPFL university in ...

Workers push a finished model of a robotic elephant outside a workshop in Thrissur, in India's Kerala state - Copyright JIJI Press/AFP/File STR Workers push a ...