This is a video of a robotic spy squirrel built by John Downer Productions (previously: some of their other spy animals) capturing the behavior of real squirrels as they attempt to steal each other’s nuts. Did you know that every autumn the average squirrel hides 10,000 nuts, and has such

This is a video of and from a robotic spy crab built by the nature photographers at John Downer Productions in order to infiltrate the annual red crab migration on Christmas Island in order to capture some up-close and personal footage. Highlights include a crab trying to cannibalize the robot

Mother Nature: she’s wild. I know because we had a brief thing in college before she left me for a bartender. This is a video from a robotic spy penguin built by John Bower Productions of an emperor penguin hatching on its dad’s feet after two months of careful incubation.

This is a video from researchers at the University Of Washington who have developed a tiny, pannable camera system capable of streaming live video that’s so small it can fit on the back of a beetle (or any other small insect). The entire system weighs only 248 milligrams in total.

In incredible headline news, this is a video of a robotic squid designed to spy on dolphins that was spotted by a few rowdy potato cod (two potato posts in one day, what are the odds?!). While investigating/trying to eat the robot squid, the cod eventually ripped its entire lower

This is a video of a robotic spy sea turtle on a Costa Rican beach capturing some up-close-and-personal footage of some of the thousands of sea turtle who have come to nest. So, if you ever wanted to get an uncomfortably close glimpse of a sea turtle squeezing out a