The latest version of the RoboBee is able to do things that previous versions were unable to do. The new version can fly, dive into water, swim, and then take off again right out of the water.

The demonstration of the first controlled flight of an insect-sized robot is the culmination of more than a decade’s work, led by researchers at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied ...

A new, hybrid RoboBee can fly, dive into water, swim, propel itself back out of water, and safely land. Floating devices allow this multipurpose air-water microrobot to stabilize on the water's ...

The RoboBee, a thimble-sized flying robot platform from Harvard's Wyss Institute, has been gaining improvements for years. The latest trick of this diminutive robo-creature is to dive into the ...

Electrostatic forces enable a lightweight flying robot called "RoboBee" to "stick" a landing on a variety of surfaces, and then take off again.

The RoboBee can't fly immediately after leaving the water because it lacks onboard sensors that tell it what medium it's in and doesn't yet have sufficient motion-tracking for the fast feedback ...

Surface tension is more than 10 times the weight of the RoboBee and three times its maximum lift. Previous research demonstrated how impact and sharp edges can break surface tension on a RoboBee’s ...

After over a decade of work, the so-called "RoboBee" has taken flight. Harvard University Researchers have been dedicated to creating an insect-sized robot for years and the work has finally paid ...

Harvard has been working on a robotic bee for more than seven years, and it can do some astonishing things. The researchers recently announced that the RoboBee can dive and swim without any ...

Last summer, the Harvard RoboBee project introduced their tiny, bee-like robots capable of pollinating crops. Now, the same minature robots are capable of diving and swimming in water, potentially ...