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

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

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

Insect-scale robots can squeeze into places their larger counterparts can't, like deep into a collapsed building to search for survivors after an earthquake. However, as they move through the rubble, ...

Cycling the heat on and off allows the robots to adjust speed and even change direction — proof that controlled, repeatable ...

It is thrown into the grass, either crawling forward or rotating and jumping; it is thrown into the water, quickly adjusting its posture, transforming into a fish; that day, it fell from the top of a ...

One animal-inspired micro robot is the RoboBee, a device weighing less than a tenth of a gram, developed at Harvard’s Wyss ...

Picture a robot controlled by micromotors so small and light that it suspends itself over water like a bug. With engineers at ...

An organic synapse array enables night vision and pattern recognition in insect robots by detecting near-infrared light and triggering real-time motor responses. (Nanowerk Spotlight) Insect-scale ...

In 2021, a group of scientists from China engineered the RoboFalcon—a bird-inspired flapping-wing robot with a newly ...

It is thrown into the grass, crawling or spinning and jumping; it is thrown into the water, quickly adjusting its posture, ...