Mankind is decades away from taking to the skies in an Iron Man-like suit, but now that researchers at the University of Maryland have cracked the secret to building robot birds that can dive and ...

The bot is programmable making it suited to studying insect flight. Already the team has been able to program the robot to mimic the flight patterns of a fruit fly. Those patterns include the ...

The flying robot's wings are so efficient that they actually provide more power than an insect muscle of the same weight, according to scientists at Bristol University.

Robotics experts at Caltech and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have created a robot that mimics the flight patterns of bats, including swerving and diving.

A new prototype is laying claim to the title of smallest, lightest untethered flying robot. At less than a centimeter in wingspan, the wirelessly powered robot is currently very limited in how far ...

Researchers have unveiled a tiny flying robot insect that could one day could take to the skies in great numbers.

Researchers have developed a novel insect-inspired flying robot. Experiments with this first autonomous, free-flying and agile flapping-wing robot promise to improve our understanding of how fruit ...

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 ...

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.

Richard Aedy: This issue of the wing flapping, it characterises insect flight but our own efforts to build things that fly - flapping is something we haven't done, not successfully.

Ford’s plans have now been made public. The American automaker wants to build a multifunctional robot that’s going to fly or drive itself according to the values shown by the predetermined ...