Recent DARPA robots include sea-based microdrones, cockroach-style surveillance bots, and even cyborg insects.

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Ripple bugs’ fan-like legs inspired engineers to build the Rhagobot, a tiny robot with self-morphing fans. By mimicking these insects’ passive, ultra-fast movements, the robot gains speed, control, ...

If you want to walk on water, it helps to have fancy feet. With the help of their feet, the rice grain–sized ripple bugs can make sharp turns in just 50 milliseconds and move up to 120 body lengths ...

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Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. iRobot co-founder Colin Angle on the future of home robotics. Plus, the story of Thread with Grant Erickson, the ...

There’s a robot for that. What a time to be alive — people are marrying AI bots, and now robots might soon be able to carry babies. Reportedly, China is working on designing a bot with an artificial ...

Have you ever found yourself having to constantly write out or say your Wi-Fi login and password to family and friends that visit or stay over? I know I have. A simple solution to that problem is to ...

There are two main stories people are telling about Apple these days. One, rooted in its financial performance going back nearly 20 years, is of the most successful electronics device-maker of all ...

Not to dwell on the superficial, but look at it: It’s sea-foam green or swimming-pool blue, depending on the light, and is the kind of thing you’d clock from the far side of the dining room, and flag ...

Horror stories from robot vacuum owners mostly stem from two fixable mishaps: They accidentally bought a dinky robot vacuum or merely haven't set their very capable robot vacuum up for success in the ...