You might remember RoboBee, an insect-sized robot that flies by flapping ... University team that first created RoboBee. That flying robot receives its power via a wire attached to an external ...

The alternative is bottom-up. Start with something similar to the flying insect-like robots and figure out how to expand their capabilities. Not surprisingly, since they built the insect-like ...

An insect-inspired robot that only weighs as much as a raisin can perform acrobatics and fly for much longer than any previous insect-sized drone without falling apart. For tiny flying robots to ...

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 ...

Like a bumblebee flitting from flower to flower, a new insect-inspired flying robot created by engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, can hover, change trajectory and even hit small ...

Different insects flap their wings in different manners. Understanding the variations between these modes of flight may help scientists design better and more efficient flying robots in the future.

Insects have been incredibly successful in developing ways of flying, with an ultra-fast flapping ... the researchers built a moth-sized robot that mimicked the various ways insects take to ...

“Before now, the concept of wireless insect-sized flying robots was science fiction. Our new wireless RoboFly shows they’re much closer to real life,” Fuller, an assistant professor and researcher for ...

Rapid declines in insect populations are leading to concerns that the pollination of important crops could soon come under threat. Tiny flying robots designed by MIT researchers could one day provide ...

“The aerodynamic principles that insects use are very different than, for example, airplanes or other flying objects. So trying to build a scale flying robot definitely gives us tools to ...

Scientists at Ritsumeikan University have developed soft robotic "microfingers ... could be helpful for studying insect forces like walking or flying (and yes, the temptation to tickle a bug ...