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

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

RoboBee now lands safely, thanks to insect-inspired legs and a smarter controller designed by Harvard engineers.

A team of researchers has unveiled a cutting-edge Amphibious Robotic Dog capable of roving across both land and water with ...

Robot lawnmowers have been around for several decades, and with them the heady promise of spending the summer with your feet ...

Weighing less than a paper clip, the new robotic insect can hover for more than 1,000 seconds—almost 17 minutes—without any degradation of flight precision. “When my student Yi-Hsuan Hsiao ...

In 2024, MAB Robotics unveiled the Honey Badger, a quadruped robot demonstrated in footage to operate effectively underwater and on land. Its amphibious nature makes it versatile for applications like ...

Do we have the right to turn insects into cyborgs that we can control to do our bidding, including our military bidding, if they feel pain or have preferences or anxieties? Making a cyborg animals can ...

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 ...

Even if you've built one of the world's most advanced insect-inspired micro air vehicles ... it's a bee-inspired robot that flies by flapping a tiny pair of artificial-muscle-equipped wings.

In a breakthrough that blends biology and robotics, researchers at the University of Osaka have created a new type of insect ...