One animal-inspired micro robot is the RoboBee, a device weighing less than a tenth of a gram, developed at Harvard’s Wyss ...

MIT researchers have developed more advanced bug-like robots that could one day pollinate indoor plants. The weight of a ...

Rooftop and drain inspection to detect stagnant water to combat mosquito breeding has traditionally been laborious and could ...

The 'Little Strong Machine' can still move autonomously after falling from a height of 108 meters, demonstrating exceptional ...

Ripple bugs’ nimble movements on the surface of water inspired a robot with automatically unfurling fans on its feet.

An organic synapse array enables night vision and pattern recognition in insect robots by detecting near-infrared light and triggering real-time motor responses. (Nanowerk Spotlight) Insect-scale ...

In 2021, a group of scientists from China engineered the RoboFalcon—a bird-inspired flapping-wing robot with a newly ...

Shape-morphing, insect-scale robots that feature an origami-inspired design and eight independently actuated degrees of freedom, powered by custom piezoelectric actuators for enhanced mechanical ...

Mad scientists have it so easy now. Back in days of yore, if you wanted to create a death ray or giant marauding robot, you had to find suitably shady investors. Today’s young inventors simply turn to ...

An advancement in robotic flight shows how advanced electronics and reconfigurable mechanisms are enabling machines to mimic ...

Harold Ilano was tired of playing Final Fantasies Seven through Nine on his PS1, so what did he do? He took the thing apart, salvaged its innards, and made a robot insect out of it. Not only does it ...

It is thrown into the grass, crawling or spinning and jumping; it is thrown into the water, quickly adjusting its posture, ...