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 ...
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a micro-flapping-wing robot that exhibits ...
In a study published in Science Advances, researchers unveiled a 21-milligram (mg), 9.4-millimeter (mm) wingspan, magnetically powered flying robot—the smallest and lightest untethered aerial robot to ...
In the future, tiny flying robots could be deployed to aid in the search for survivors trapped beneath the rubble after a ...
A video of University of Pennsylvania professor Vijay Kumar showing off palm-sized “agile aerial robots” from the college lab logged more than 200,000 views online at ted.com by the time the ...
A robotic insect with four wings is the first to be able to control itself in all three axes of movement like a bee. The inventors hope it may be useful for rescue operations, or probing dangerous ...
The robots are here and now they can fly. At the Italian Institute of Technology, engineers have built iRonCub, a robot shaped like a person (with a baby face, for some reason) that can lift off the ...