The robot's flight performances, combined with its programmability, also make it well suited for research into insect flight. (Representative Image) Scientists say the have developed a novel ...

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Chinese researchers have designed a novel flying robot that not only climbs wall like you have seen in sci-fi movies but is also capable of avoiding obstacles and even jumping over grooves on wall ...

A bio-inspired robot can use water from the environment to launch itself into the air, British researchers revealed. The robot can travel 85 feet through the air after taking off and researchers ...

A small robot with wings like an insect can fly and generate more power than a similarly sized animal in nature. Most flying robots, whether they use wings or propellers, have motors and gears and ...

Scientists have created what they say is the world's smallest untethered flying robot, by taking a unique approach to its design. To minimize size and weight, they've moved the bot's power and control ...

Flying insects like bees, dragonflies, and fruit flies can perform impressive aerodynamic feats, particularly when seeking to evade predators or the swatting motion of a human hand. Now Dutch ...

A flying robot which can identify snipers and bombs in built-up areas is being developed by scientists as a future weapon against guerrilla fighters, a university has announced. The University of ...

While robotics companies like Boston Dynamics continue to crank out humanoid bots that walk shockingly well—on every surface except for sand, apparently—there are, of course, limitations to using ...

A flying micro-robot has been developed by researchers at the University of Waterloo in Ontario. A research team lead by professor Mir Behrad Khamesee manipulated magnetic fields to levitate and move ...

Let’s say you want to build a swarm of inch-long flying robots. (Maybe you’ve got a DARPA grant. Maybe it’s an art project—-imagine if those moved.) Flying is complicated and requires a lot of ...

From "flying cars" to robots and self-driving buses, here are some of the innovations spotted at this week's Munich auto fair, IAA Mobility, one of the world's biggest: 'Give cars wings' Chinese ...