Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed an insect-sized hopping robot capable of ...

The insect-scale machine can hover ... “The dream was to make flying robots to fly anywhere and anytime without using an electrical wire for the power source,” Liwei Lin, a professor of ...

Do we have the right to turn insects into cyborgs that we can control to do our bidding, including our military bidding, if they feel pain or have preferences or anxieties? Making a cyborg animals can ...

Tiny flying robots could perform such useful tasks ... Weighing less than a paper clip, the new robotic insect can hover for more than 1,000 seconds—almost 17 minutes—without any degradation ...

Harvard University has had the flying robot insect market covered for a long time. However, their robot bee, while cool, was starting to bum them out. They wanted to put the battery and brain on ...

RoboBee now lands safely, thanks to insect-inspired legs and a smarter controller designed by Harvard engineers.

A new insect-inspired flying robot created by engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, can hover, change trajectory and even hit small targets. UC Berkeley graduate student Wei Yue ...

Harvard's RoboBee will one day conduct artificial pollination and survey disaster zones, but first it has to stop crash landing.

Biodegradable aquatic robots use food-grade fish materials to monitor water, deliver nutrients, and disintegrate.

Millimeter-Scale Mechanisms and Devices / Microrobotics: Flying Robots, Rotary and Linear Actuators ... solar power for autonomous operation of insect-scale robots; and self-sensing actuation. Some of ...