PULLMAN, Wash. — Two insect-like robots, a mini-bug and a water strider, developed at Washington State University, are the smallest, lightest and fastest fully functional micro-robots ever known to be ...

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What do a mighty morphing dinosaur, several children in a trench coat, and a swarm of smiling robots have in common? They know there’s power in numbers — at least when it comes to their constituent ...

Insects know it well: Exoskeletons are awesome defense mechanisms. Shell-like outer layers protect crabs as they scuttle across the sand, provide cockroaches with rigid, flexible casings that are ...

Harvard researchers have extended the flight time of their insect-sized RoboBee device by copying the way small bugs descend onto walls and ceilings. The RoboBee, which first flew in 2012, is now able ...

May 23, 2018, a team of engineers from The University of Washington presented the first wireless robotic insect at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation in Brisbane, Australia. The ...

A new study explains how tiny water bugs use fan-like propellers to zip across streams at speeds up to 120 body lengths per second ...