At a laboratory in Beijing, a nimble, tiny bionic robot effortlessly weaved through its surroundings. Finding itself in a ...

Thanks to a Chinese team's innovation, the colony of microbots from Disney's animated feature Big Hero 6 is inching closer to ...

mosquito is changing the way genomics is done - the ability to accurately set up reactions at a fraction of the traditional volumes (often one-tenth or less) leads to a step-change in productivity.

An army of cyborg cockroaches could save lives during rescue missions. To do this, however, cockroaches have to be turned ...

“I love you too,” Moxie says with an abrupt smile. “Heather, your kinship and friendship mean a lot to me, I’m grateful for ...

Robots can implant electronics on insects to produce cybernetically controlled bugs in just over a minute, researchers say.

This gives to robot a steady power output, slightly better than that of an insect muscle of the same weight. Receive a weekly dose of discovery in your inbox! We'll also keep you up to date with ...

With the press of a button, researcher Than Vo-Doan can make a beetle walk up, down, left, right, and climb walls like a ...

The capability of body deformation further enhances the reachability of these small robots in complex cluttered terrains similar to those of insects and soft arthropods. Motivated by this concept, we ...

West Virginia University roboticists are working on an alternative path to robot autonomy in Loopy, a "multicellular robot" ...