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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

RoboBee offers diminutive size and insect-like flight prowess for a range of potential scientific, commercial, and emergency ...

The robot has also received an updated controller that helps it decelerate on approach, resulting in a gentle plop-down. The Harvard RoboBee has long shown it can fly, dive, and hover like a real ...

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 ...