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

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 ...

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 ...