Micro robots like Robobee & HAMR-Jr could be more impactful than bigger robots like Boston Dynamics' Atlas. Biomimicry plays ...

The first robot, dubbed the HydroFlexor, can paddle across water with fin-like motions, while the second robot, dubbed the ...

MIT researchers have developed more advanced bug-like robots that could one day pollinate indoor plants. The weight of a ...

Scientists build insect-inspired soft robots on water using HydroSpread, a new fabrication method for flexible films.

Water striders are fascinating to watch, as they scoot across the water while supported by surface tension. Scientists have now built a tiny robotic version of the insect, which utilizes a ...

In an age of increasingly advanced robotics, one team has well and truly bucked the trend, instead finding inspiration within the pinhead-sized brain of a tiny flying insect in order to build a robot ...

Sorry MIT, but you’re not the only university in Massachusetts bringing sci-fi technology to reality. Recently, researchers from Harvard’s microrobotics lab showed off the world’s first insect-sized ...

Inspired by nature's adaptability, researchers at CU Boulder have developed CLARI, short for Compliant Legged Articulated Robotic Insect, a versatile robot capable of altering its shape to navigate ...

With a more efficient method for artificial pollination, farmers in the future could grow fruits and vegetables inside ...

The prototype, called the Bee++, can twist, fly in any direction and achieve the same 6 degrees of free movement that a typical insect can. The tiny robot has four wings made of carbon fiber and mylar ...

Sean Humbert is unlocking the biological secrets of the common housefly to make major advances in robotics and uncrewed aerial systems (UAS). A professor in the Paul M. Rady Department of Mechanical ...

An insect-sized robot powered by tiny explosions can crawl, leap and carry a load many times its own weight. The robot, developed by materials engineer Robert Shepherd at Cornell University in Ithaca, ...