Insects may seem like mere pests, but their physical abilities are still beyond even the most sophisticated robots. Engineers at the University of Washington have taken important first steps towards ...

Artist illustration: Research Ron Polcawich presenting micro-robot fly project with autonomous prototype flying in the upper right corner. Researchers at the U.S. Army are taking advantage of an ...

Engineers have unveiled a housefly-sized %22robot fly%22 that can hover and steer The robot flies have laser-etched wings inspired by real insects and origami Military and search-and-rescue drones may ...

Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes to get you as enthralled with the wonders of the universe as she is. When she's not daydreaming about flying through space, she's daydreaming ...

Fruit flies move over. A new flying robot called DelFly has flapping wings and can dodge a swatting hand with as much agility as a fruit fly. DelFly has two thin plastic wings on each side of its body ...

As the nation recently celebrated the 100th anniversary of human flight, an internationally recognized University of Delaware robotics expert turned his attention to the skies. Sunil K. Agrawal, UD ...

They're a source of fascination for some and paranoia for others – robot insects, which are about the size of your standard house fly and capable of flying in mostly the same fashion. This week the ...

A group of Harvard scientists at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering have been working on robotic bees for a few years now. They certainly aren’t the most advanced kind of robots ...

CREATING a free-flying robotic insect is the dearest wish of many an engineer because such a machine would have great potential in surveillance and in seeking out trapped people in search-and-rescue ...