If you’ve ever left the beach with a stinging or itching sensation, you may have received a sand flea bite. While humans aren’t actually the preferred food source for sand fleas—decaying organic ...

Sand fleas have a remarkable ability to change color in order to match dramatically different backgrounds, according to a new study from the University of Exeter and the Ascension Island Government ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- Boston Dynamics’ video gallery of troop-supporting robots that trek and haul loads has a new addition that is drawing a sea of impressed viewers. It’s the Sand Flea Robot, an ...

The robotic geniuses at Boston Dynamics have done it again. The DARPA-backed brains behind the AlphaDog robot, and the world’s fastest four-legged robot (appropriately named “Cheetah”), have created ...

We have featured a number of different robots from Boston Dynamics previously here at Geeky Gadgets. The latest one is called the Sand Flea, and it is capable of jumping a massive 30 feet into the air ...

It doesn’t look like much, kind of a simple RC car. That is, until it jumps. Boston Dynamics just released a video of their Sand Flea robot, and man can it jump. It rolls around, then stops, rears ...

There’s a proud tradition of scientists conducting experiments on themselves: Jonas Salk injected his entire family with the first polio vaccine. Sir Humphry Davy inhaled the fumes he concocted in his ...

Tungiasis, a tropical disease associated with poverty, is caused by the penetration of female sand fleas into a person's skin, usually in their toes or feet. Researchers report five cases of severe ...

Boston Dynamics, creator of the very awesome BigDog and a menagerie of other bots, is sending two small reconnaissance robots to the U.S. Army for testing. Sand Flea and RHex, developed with funding ...

[Photo: Boston Dynamics] Boston Dynamics has brought us some frightening mobility robots that can walk and run. But now they are showing off something much more simple: a small, unassuming RC car…that ...