Earlier versions of insect-scale robots could only fly slowly and along predictable paths. The new robot changes that dynamic ...

Mosquitoes live almost everywhere on Earth and are easy to rear. The team estimates that organic 3D printing nozzles made ...

Tiny flying robots may soon help rescue people trapped after earthquakes or explore dangerous, hard-to-reach places. But ...

According to its developers, the new robot features flapping wings that are powered by a set of artificial muscles that ...

In the future, tiny flying robots could be deployed to aid in the search for survivors trapped beneath the rubble after a ...

Researchers have unveiled a microrobot that flies with speed and agility, mirroring the motion of real insects; these ...

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a micro-flapping-wing robot that exhibits ...

An insect-inspired robot that only weighs as much as a raisin can perform acrobatics and fly for much longer than any previous insect-sized drone without falling apart. For tiny flying robots to make ...

Insect-scale robots can squeeze into places their larger counterparts can't, like deep into a collapsed building to search for survivors after an earthquake. However, as they move through the rubble, ...

Harold Ilano was tired of playing Final Fantasies Seven through Nine on his PS1, so what did he do? He took the thing apart, salvaged its innards, and made a robot insect out of it. Not only does it ...

Mad scientists have it so easy now. Back in days of yore, if you wanted to create a death ray or giant marauding robot, you had to find suitably shady investors. Today’s young inventors simply turn to ...

MIT researchers developed an aerial microrobot that can fly with speed and agility comparable to real insects. The research ...