Little robots, attached to flying drones, that have been busy hovering around power lines. It turns out their work is aimed at saving the lives of fellow aviators.

Flying, insect-like robot flits closer to independent ... and cutting weight to allow ever smaller versions of quadcopter drones to fly, with some now available that weigh as little as 10 grams.

So how about a flying-fish robot? A team with the Aerial Robotics Laboratory at the Imperial College London in the UK has developed a floating robot that can shoot a jet of water out of its rear ...

These properties make the colorful little beetles a great source of inspiration for flying robots, says Kyu-Jin Cho, the director of the Soft Robotics Research Center at Seoul National University ...

Small, insect-like robot can now latch on to overhangs "Perching" on a surface only takes 1/1000th the energy of flight. John Timmer – May 19, 2016 3:10 pm | 18 ...

Introducing GimBall – a flying robot modeled on insects, ... With a 37 centimeter diameter, the robot is a little larger than a basketball. Featuring a stable inner frame, ...

We humans have a peculiar relationship with robots. On the one hand, we create them, and they amaze us with their awesomeness. On the other, well, have you ever heard of a little thing called ...

Applied mathematicians at New York University have fashioned a flying robot out of four carbon fiber wings that beat the ... The flying jellyfish weighs as little as two paperclips and can fit in ...

This little guy might not look much, but he's the world's smallest flying robotic insect—and he's taken 12 years to get into the air. While engineers from ...

Check out these robot lightning bugs that MIT researchers created Making robot lightning bugs that are built to insect-scale isn’t easy. And, there are a lot of factors to consider.

If you’ve been looking up into the South Jersey skies over the past week, you may have seen them. Little robots, attached to flying drones, that have been busy hovering around power lines. It ...