Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed an insect-sized hopping robot capable of ...

Insect-scale robots can squeeze into places their larger counterparts can't, like deep into a collapsed building to search for survivors after an earthquake. However, as they move through the ...

Harvard's RoboBee will one day conduct artificial pollination and survey disaster zones, but first it has to stop crash landing.

Researchers have developed a novel method to control insect cyborgs using light, eliminating the need for electrical ...

Kaushik Jayaram envisions a day when swarms of tiny robots, some weighing no more than a paperclip, will crawl through airplanes or into buildings after an earthquake—searching for survivors or ...

[caption id="attachment_136148" align="alignnone" width="770"] Engineers at UC Berkeley are working on robots of various sizes that can work together. The bigger ...