Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tiny robots inspired by insects could soon glide across water, scouting flooded areas, monitoring pollutants, or collecting ...

A collaborative research group has developed a bio-inspired robotic system based on insect behavior which can locate odor ...

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 ...

Tiny robotic insects may soon become lifesaving tools in disaster zones. MIT researchers have unveiled an aerial microrobot that flies with unprecedented speed and agility, mirroring the gymnastic ...

IIT-Kanpur has successfully made the science fiction- ‘Spy Bug’ into a real thing. This robotic bug which is inspired by several idioms and sci-fi examples is called ‘Insect-Copter’, a small bug-like ...

Researchers combined soft microactuators with high-energy-density chemical fuel to create an insect-scale quadrupedal robot that is powered by combustion and can outrace, outlift, outflex and outleap ...

Flapping-wing robots that mimic the flight mechanics of birds and insects are closing the control gap with conventional ...