The Defense Advanced Research Institute now has a solution for landing in choppy seas and uneven terrain: adaptive robotic landing gear, shaped like giant steel grasshopper legs. The system employs ...

To a zoologist, the leap of the grasshopper is one of the wonders of the world. An adult grasshopper can leap ten times its length in the high jump, 20 times its length in the broad jump. A man up to ...

Grasshoppers are among our most familiar and ancient insects, with ancestors dating back some 300 million years. Worldwide, there are about 11,000 kinds, including 600 species in North America and ...