A team of roboticists at Tsinghua University, working with a trio of colleagues from Beihang University, all in China, has designed a new type of microrobot that can continuously transform its shape ...

The researchers from the China University of Mining and Technology (CUMT) drew inspiration from insect locomotion, woodpecker climbing dynamics, and origami techniques to design an innovative bionic ...

Engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, have developed a tiny flying robot inspired by flying insects. It is less than 1 centimeter in size with only two tiny magnets and weighs only 21 ...

A popular Japanese restaurant chain has closed nearly all of its 2,000 stores for cleaning this week, after a rat and a bug were found in its food. Sukiya, the country’s largest chain serving ...

Humanoids? Been there, done that. Now, engineers are trying to create robots that look like insects. Engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, have created the world’s smallest wireless ...

A ROS package that implements a multi-robot RRT-based map exploration algorithm. It also has the image-based frontier detection that uses image processing to extract frontier points. VMAS is a ...

Figure AI has developed a new humanoid robotic natural walking capability for its humanoid robots, leveraging reinforcement learning (RL) and simulation-based training. This approach enables the ...

A tiny magnetic robot which can take 3D scans from deep within the body and could revolutionise early cancer detection, has been developed by researchers. The team, led by engineers from the ...

This photo provided by Qiong Wu in March 2025 shows an ancient wasp, preserved in amber from Myanmar, whose back end resembles a Venus flytrap plant. (Qiong Wu via AP) ...