Squirrels and foxes are known to have the ability to make fantastic jumps in pursuit of prey. Alas, most of the current robots cannot boast of this.
In the arsenal of the US Army in recent years, a whole family of UAVs has appeared: in particular, the MQ-1 Predator attack drone and the MQ-4 Global Hawk transport drone. The development of ground-based drones, which have to operate in much more difficult conditions than their flying counterparts, is also continuing. For example, ground robots have big problems when overcoming rubble made of stones or deep trenches.
In search of living prototypes capable of performing such tasks, scientists “came out” on geckos and cockroaches. However, now we are talking about the ability of new robots to make instant decisions and manoeuvres in a fraction of a second.
This is exactly the kind of ability that squirrels possess.
