Scientists apparently underestimated the aggression of itty-bitty male fiddler crabs when they deployed a friendly robot ...

Scientists at the University of Exeter have created a robotic crab, nicknamed Wavy Dave, to understand how male fiddler crabs ...

Researchers have built a robot crab that can compete in claw-waving displays with real fiddler crabs, but "Wavy Dave" doesn't ...

Wavy Dave the robot crustacean has been showing scientists how male fiddler crabs respond when they see a fellow crab waving.

Between May and July 2022, Wilde and his team created "Wavy Dave," an artificial fiddler crab with a robotic claw that could ...

In the new study, a robot crab—nicknamed Wavy Dave—waved its claw on a mudflat teeming with male fiddler crabs. The paper, ...

Using a 3D robotic crab, researchers found male fiddler crabs adjust their courtship signals based on the size and behavior of nearby rivals.

Anyone who ever met Wavy Dave and lived to tell the tale—which is, in point of fact, everyone who has ever met Wavy Dave—would tell you about his claw. It was big, that’s for certain, but this was not ...