Tiny robotic insects may soon become lifesaving tools in disaster zones. MIT researchers have ...

In the future, farmers could grow fruits and vegetables in multilevel warehouses with the help of more efficient methods for ...

In the future, tiny flying robots could be deployed to aid in the search for survivors trapped beneath the rubble after a ...

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According to its developers, the new robot features flapping wings that are powered by a set of artificial muscles that ...

Water striders are fascinating to watch, as they scoot across the water while supported by surface tension. Scientists have now built a tiny robotic version of the insect, which utilizes a ...

WASHINGTON - Tiny robots programmed to act like roaches were able to blend into cockroach society, according to researchers studying the collective behavior of insects. Cockroaches tend to ...

In an age of increasingly advanced robotics, one team has well and truly bucked the trend, instead finding inspiration within the pinhead-sized brain of a tiny flying insect in order to build a robot ...

The prototype, called the Bee++, can twist, fly in any direction and achieve the same 6 degrees of free movement that a typical insect can. The tiny robot has four wings made of carbon fiber and mylar ...

A tiny micro-robotic insect wing hangs off the front of a circuit board. The idea of being a “fly on the wall” in an enemy headquarters has been a goal of intelligence agencies for as long as there ...

(Nanowerk News) Two insect-like robots, a mini-bug and a water strider, developed at Washington State University, are the smallest, lightest and fastest fully functional micro-robots ever known to be ...

Researchers have developed these soft, robotic microfingers which allow humans to consort with insects and interact with the environment, giving them a chance to touch microorganisms with this ...