Here in my hand is a mosquito-like type of robot.” That is how Liang Hexiang, a researcher at China’s National University of Defence Technology (NUDT), stood at a podium and made the device that fit ...

China unveiled a mosquito-sized drone designed for covert military operations and espionage — a development that’s raising ...

A new synthetic "skin" gives robots the human touch. The low-cost, durable and highly-sensitive material can be added to robotic hands just like a glove, say scientists. It enables automatons to ...

The entire time that humanity has been in existence, the mosquito has been proof that we are not. ♦ Published in the print edition of the August 5 & 12, 2019 , issue, with the headline “Buzz ...

Summer often means picnics, evening walks... and mosquito invasions! These flying insects, belonging to the Culicidae family, ...

Zhengyang (Kris) Weng (MSR '25) brought a passion for the piano to MSR, where his independent project replicating a human hand could ultimately impact robots in hospital operating rooms. The gentle ...

There’s no doubt that bald eagles are large birds. But how does the bald eagle’s size compare to humans and other common bird species? Bald Eagle vs. Human. At three feet tall, the average bald eagle ...

Xu and her colleagues compared humans and LLMs in their knowledge representation of 4,442 words—everything from "flower" and "hoof" to "humorous" and "swing." They compared the similarity of ...

Like humans, this dinosaur crawled before it walked. Dinosaurs like the "mouse lizard" are among the few animals that made this particular shift in age-related locomotion, fossils suggest.

Video: China’s humanoid robot masters chopsticks, cooks dumplings, pours wine. The XHAND1 robotic hand offers 12 DOF with five fingers, enabling precise and human-like movements.

Study co-author and paleoanthropologist Samar Syeda of the American Museum of Natural History explained that skeletal measurements indicate fingers were once under a variety of stresses from climbing ...