For scientists at UC Berkeley, the cockroach has inspired a whole new way of thinking about robots. After studying the way in which roaches squeeze through tiny cracks and crevices, the team ...

One of nature’s grossest insects has inspired researchers to create a very tiny robot designed to burrow through natural disaster sites and relay information to rescue workers.

To explore how cockroaches make group decisions, scientists created a robot that smells like a cockroach and follows some basic roach rules. And what they found is that just a few individuals can ...

We've all tried to kill a cockroach only to watch it scurry away at a super-fast pace. One of nature's creepiest insects, as it turns out, has inspired reseachers to create a very tiny robot that ...

Robots that mimic the way cockroaches can scuttle through teeny-tiny cracks might one day help first responders locate and rescue disaster victims trapped in debris, researchers say.

The sight of a cockroach on the run may strike fear into your heart, but what if it were running to save you? That’s what researchers at UC Berkeley had in mind when they designed CRAM, a robot ...

Researchers build a robot that moves more like a cockroach. When they turn up in family pantries or restaurant kitchens, cockroaches are commonly despised as ugly, unhealthy pests and are quickly ...

To figure out how a group of small-brained insects is able to perform tasks of great complexity, scientists infiltrated a band of cockroaches with robotic ringers.

This cockroach-inspired robot will scurry right into your nightmares Crawling soon to a rescue squad near you ...

In nature, cockroaches can survive underwater for up to 30 minutes. Now, a robotic cockroach can do even better. Harvard's Ambulatory Microrobot, known as HAMR, can walk on land, swim on the ...

The cockroach's ability to compress itself into a fraction of its size and still move around with great speed becomes the basis for a search-and-rescue robot created at UC Berkeley.

Cockroaches are loathsome beasts that can invade homes by squeezing through the tiniest cracks in their walls. But to biologist Kaushik Jayaram, cockroaches are a key to building robots that might ...