NYU's Leif Ristroph wanted to design an exceedingly simple miniature flying robot. Instead of finding inspiration in insects, he turned to the jellyfish, a water dweller. Whereas insect-like bots ...

If you want an easy project to complete in a day or so, or something to introduce kids to the world of robots and electronics, make this light-following robot your weekend project.

Scientists have been trying to create robots that can fly like insects and birds for a long time. A new flying robot has been created by researchers at TU Delft from the Micro Air Vehicle ...

This nifty flying robot can hover, bank, and turn as deftly as a fruit fly Dutch scientists built the robot to shed light on aerodynamics of insect flight.

Researchers say they have built a flying robot that mimics the movements of a swimming jellyfish.

Here comes the robot apocalypse: Harvard researchers build inch-long flying robots using techniques from microchip manufacturing, origami, and pop-up books.

A flying micro-robot has been developed by researchers at the University of Waterloo in Ontario. A research team, led by Professor Mir Behrad Khamesee, manipulates magnetic fields to levitate and ...

Moju ZhaoListen, we’re all big fans of science here—but sometimes, science gets it wrong. Case in point: Japanese engineers have created an utterly creepy robot spider that’s also capable of ...

NASA has announced an unusual idea for exploring Titan, Saturn's largest moon: a shapeshifting robot that could both fly and swim while exploring its surface. The robot, called Shapeshifter, is ...