Tiny flying robots could perform such useful tasks as pollinating crops inside multilevel warehouses, boosting yields while ...

Robotics is advancing at an incredible pace, becoming smaller, smarter, and more innovative. A remarkable example is MIT's ...

Notably, it achieves this with 60% less energy consumption compared to a similar-sized flying robot. Previously, Interesting Engineering reported on the robotic insects created by the team that ...

A new insect-scale robot developed at MIT is reshaping how robotics can be used in challenging environments like disaster ...

Inspired by this natural design, the engineers outfitted the RoboBee with its own set of long, double-jointed legs. These new ...

Harvard's RoboBee will one day conduct artificial pollination and survey disaster zones, but first it has to stop crash ...

The bumblebee-inspired robot is less than a centimeter wide and can hover, change direction, and hit small targets. Like a bumblebee moving from flower to flower, a new insect-inspired flying robot ...

While jumping is less common among insect-scale robots, which usually fly or crawl, hopping affords many advantages for energy efficiency. When a robot hops, it transforms potential energy ...

Harvard’s tiny flying robot, known as the RoboBee, has just gotten a major upgrade that makes landing much safer and smoother. Inspired by the long legs of crane flies, engineers have given the robot ...

An international team has explored how in future aerial robots could process construction materials precisely in the air -- an approach with great potential for difficult-to-access locations or work ...