When we talk about solutions to the pressing concerns of deforestation, mass extinction, and climate change, we tend to think big. Designers try to engineer electric airliners. Drought-ridden ...

Engineers regularly swipe nature's best designs for machines that humans can use. Animals are the result of thousands of years of evolution, generally giving them sleek and enviable designs. But in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. PART MUST COURTESY GEORGIA TECH. For Reuters customers only. It looks like a sloth and behaves like a sloth. (SOUNDBITE) (English) ...

Because sloths move very slowly – when they move at all – they burn relatively few calories, thus requiring little food. Scientists have now applied that principle to a sluggish but energy-efficient ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. SlothBot is a slow-moving and energy-efficient robot that can linger in the trees to monitor animals, plants, and the environment below, ...

Have you ever seen a wet sloth? They’re pretty scary. If that’s not bad enough, how do you feel about a robotic one? Named the X-4 “Sloth”, this is one of [222Doc’s] hardest projects to date — a ...

High above the Canopy Walk, inside the fertile hardwood forests teeming with tulip poplars and Southern silverbells, is a sloth just hanging around. Take a stroll down the Storza Woods in Atlanta ...