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

Modeled after a mini-bug and a water strider, the two bots respectively weigh in at eight and 55 milligrams, and may mark the “smallest, lightest, and fastest fully functional” micro-robots in ...

A tiny bug's unique, wing-like feet, which allow it to skim the surface of turbulent streams with amazing maneuverability, ...

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. The researchers ...

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

Washington State University has developed two insect robots, a mini-bug and a water strider. The micro-sized robots were created with the hope that thy could one day carry out human roles in ...

Technology Robots Mini explosions give this little robot a big bounce The bug-inspired bot can carry 22 times its own weight and leap almost as high as hopping insects. By Andrew Paul ...

Insect "extermination" may soon involve mini robots that can befriend and lure cockroaches from their dens. Scientists in Lausanne, Switzerland, have successfully infiltrated a colony of roaches ...