Researchers at University of California, Berkeley, have devised a palm-sized robot using some of their creepy findings about cockroaches. Kaushik Jayaram, who recently obtained his Ph.D. from UC ...

Borrowing an idea from nature, John Hopkins University in Maryland has designed a sensor which allows a robot to feel its way around. The flexible wand-like device is based on detailed examination of ...

The cockroach's ability to quickly switch from walking on the ground to climbing a wall is helping scientists develop fast-reaction robots able to change direction and climb over obstacles without ...

Suddenly the cockroach disappeared from the field of vision when I thought that it was pursuing cockroaches with newspapers and insecticide hands at last ... but it seems that the mechanism has been ...

The 2008 film Wall-E depicted Earth as a post-apocalyptic wasteland with nothing on it but the abandoned remnants of human ...

Things that scurry are hard to predict. They're nervous and quick — and no one likes a small, nervous, quick thing. But one robot seems to be going against the grain. It's a cockroach-inspired machine ...