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 landing.

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

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 ...

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 ...

The team has given their flying robot a set of long ... and hover like a real insect. But what good is the miracle of flight without a safe way to land? A storied engineering achievement by ...

Flying robots have some big advantages over their ... At the top of its body are four insect-inspired flapping wings that are moved by electrically activated artificial muscles.

The RoboBee's four new crane-fly-inspired legs are ... within the amazing diversity of insects offers us countless avenues to continue improving the robot," says postdoctoral researcher Alyssa ...