Students at MIT are designing and developing robots that weigh less than one gram, and could one day perform artificial ...

Unitree Robotics has launched the R1, a remarkable humanoid robot capable of walking, running, dancing, cartwheeling, and ...

In the field of embodied intelligent robots, biomimetic flexible structures are becoming a key technology to break through the limitations of traditional rigid designs, enabling bio-inspired movements ...

Rhagobot isn’t exactly the first thing that comes to mind at the mention of a robot. Inspired by Rhagovelia water striders, semiaquatic insects also known as ripple bugs, these tiny bots can glide ...

It fell from a height of over 30 stories—yet astonishingly, it stood up and walked away! In the future, during earthquake rescue operations, these robots could be air-dropped by drones into rubble to ...

They can do double flips and rolls. Researchers make incredible breakthrough after building robotic flying bugs: 'Real lightweight and small' first appeared on The Cool Down.

An industry based on insects’ natural recycling abilities could help limit the environmental damage from our food system.

Philanthropy backs bold science as federal funds shrink. Schmidt Polymaths support Saad Bhamla’s work on biomechanics of everyday organisms from ripple bugs to flamingos.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers are working on a new generation of tiny bots inspired by creepy crawlies.

Chagas disease -- a potentially serious illness spread by an insect called the "kissing bug" -- may be establishing itself in ...

What they found is that both a chameleon and salamander use this “ballistic tongue” like a slingshot. After spotting their ...

With AI-based language processing, robots can understand natural human instructions. So even people without technical ...