Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed an insect-sized hopping robot ... and Micro Robotics Lab says, unlike flying robots, the "hopping design recycles ...

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 ...

Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden is about to get a lot buggier this summer as it unveils its highly anticipated exhibition, “Bugging Out: A Bugs World but Bigger!” Running now through Sept. 28, this ...

The RoboBee can already fly, dive, and hover like a real insect. But there’s been one thing it couldn’t do very well – land safely. Now, a team of engineers has finally tackled this critical challenge ...

A newly published study in the Journal of Neurophysiology reveals how blow flies (Calliphora vicina)—despite their minimal ...

Imagine a robot that can transform between "flying drone" and "wheeled rover" configurations. It could potentially be quite ...

Entomologist Dr. Jessica Ware joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about the world of insects. Are cockroaches so resilient that they'd survive a nuclear war? Why do praying mantis ...

Specialized robots that can both fly and drive typically touch down on land before attempting to transform and drive away.

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This created a shallow layer of cool, stable air hugging the surface—enough to shut down vertical mixing and disorient the flying insects that rely on solar and thermal cues to navigate.

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