These miniature flyers, invented by the Soft and Micro Robotics Lab have shattered the previously held records: they sustain flight for over 1,000 seconds—more than 100 times longer than earlier ...

A bee-like robot currently under development at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is part of a new generation ...

Bees' flight capabilities are quite sophisticated, but strangely, the MIT roboticists ended up building a robot that sported ...

Ripple bugs’ fan-like legs inspired engineers to build the Rhagobot, a tiny robot with self-morphing fans. By mimicking these ...

These movable, bio-inspired robots are controlled by laser pulses and can be as thin as a strand of human hair.

As technology advances, researchers are increasingly turning to the natural world for inspiration. In the sixth season ...

Researchers have developed a hybrid micro-robot, the size of a single biological cell (about 10 microns across), that can be controlled and navigated using two different mechanisms -- electric and ...

Researchers from Tel Aviv University, Israel, have created a micro-robot the size of a single biological cell that navigates using both electricity and magnetic fields and can identify and capture ...

The U.S. Army is preparing—for the first time—to develop and field micro robotic systems under programs of record, indicating confidence that the technology has matured and years of research are ...

Canadian researchers have developed a tiny flying robot which can be moved through three dimensions using electro-magnets.