Mankind is decades away from taking to the skies in an Iron Man-like suit, but now that researchers at the University of Maryland have cracked the secret to building robot birds that can dive and ...

We may not be at fruit fly level yet, but researchers are giving the insects some competition. Today's issue of Science reports on miniature flying robots that aren't much bigger than a coin.

Researchers are using ultra high-speed cameras to study hummingbird flight, so they can build better flying robots.

Researchers at MIT have made flying insect-like robots that have soft wings and motors, and could possibly be used for pollination. The post These Tiny Flying Robots Have the Speed and Stamina of ...

Researchers developed a novel learning-based method so robots on extraterrestrial bodies can make decisions on their own about where and how to scoop up terrain samples.

It’s the first robo-fly that doesn’t need to be tethered to a power supply.

If you want a robot to maneuver aggressively, it has to be small. As you scale things down, the "moment of inertia"—the resistance to angular motion—drops dramatically. Our nano-quadrotor ...

Flying robots made from cellophane? Researchers have discovered that cellulose is a smart material that can flap when exposed to an electric field.

Researchers have developed a novel insect-inspired flying robot. Experiments with this first autonomous, free-flying and agile flapping-wing robot promise to improve our understanding of how fruit ...

Previously, the smallest reported flying robot, either tethered or untethered, was 28 millimeters wide. When exposed to an external alternating magnetic field, the robots spin and fly without tethers.