It’s also almost as hardy as a real cockroach, as the researchers repeatedly applied pressure to it by stepping on it. “Most of the robots at this particular small scale are very fragile.

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 ...

CRAM, the cockroach-inspired robot that can keep moving even when squished to half its size. Tom Libby, Kaushik Jayaram and Pauline Jennings – courtesy of PolyPEDAL Lab, UC Berkeley.

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 ...

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.

Still, a cockroach-inspired robot can be unsettling. So I’ve come up with a way to make it a bit more palatable. Instead of imaging it running up your bedroom walls, ...

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.

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.

To explore how groups of cockroaches make collective decisions, scientists have created a robotic cockroach that the real insects accept as one of their own. The robot doesn't look anything like a ...

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 ...

It's just one model in a suite of robotic cockroaches designed and developed by the same team. One model is able to both withstand weight up to 900 times its own body weight, as well as run at ...

Most people find cockroaches repulsive, but not John Schmitt. A mechanical engineer at Oregon State University, Schmitt is using the leggy pests as a model for futuristic robots that can run ...