A research study in which the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid is participating has found evidence that suggests that the key to locomotion in snails stems from the animal's complex muscle ...

New evidence suggests that the key to locomotion in snails stems from the animal's complex muscle movements, and not from its mucus, as had been previously thought. This finding could open the ...

How can a snail crawl along the surface of a pond while hanging upside-down underwater, especially when there’s seemingly nothing to grab?

Adhesive locomotion in robots have been limited so far to externally powered, centimeter-scale demonstrators with electro-mechanical drives.

Scientists in China and Poland have invented a laser-powered micro-robot that gets around by mimicking the adhesive locomotion of slugs and snails.

The battery-powered devices are larger than the average snail and don't exactly resemble the mollusks, but they crawl using two modes of locomotion that snails employ to travel across their trails ...

The micro-robot, pictured here next to a garden snail, uses adhesive locomotion to move. [Photo provided by University of Warsaw] Scientists in China and Poland have invented a laser-powered micro ...

The pond snail Lymnaea stagnalis moves along the sides and bottom of an aquarium, but it can also glide upside down on its back below the water's surface. We have termed these two forms of locomotion ...

Researchers used liquid crystal elastomer technology to demonstrate a bio-inspired microrobot capable of mimicking the adhesive locomotion of snails and slugs in natural scale. The 10-millimeter long ...