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 ...

There is still a lot more research for roboticists to do before robots are as smart and agile as insects: "Even a small fly has really smart reactions that are quick and able to respond to a lot ...

We may not be at fruit fly level yet, but researchers are giving the insects some competition. Today's issue of Science reports on miniature flying robots that aren't much bigger than a coin.

Researchers developed a novel learning-based method so robots on extraterrestrial bodies can make decisions on their own about where and how to scoop up terrain samples.

Sure, someone could actually teach the robot how to fly by itself, in which case it would be able to control the trajectory, but the fans would still spread dust everywhere. Creating the device ...

The incredible agility of the common house or fruit fly puts every drone and robot to shame, but devices inspired by them are beginning to catch up. A new four-winged flapping robot not only ...

Researchers from Korea have designed and created a humanoid robot capable of flying planes 'just like a human pilot' but without human problems.

PHOTO: Michael F. McElroyWORM: This robot mimics how a worm moves using muscular contractions. Eventually, worm-like robots could be used to access confined spaces for medical applications, buried ...

Robotics researchers at the University of Michigan showed that feeding robots fabricated or augmented data helps them improve performance and learn on the fly.

A group of Stanford scientists have created a robotic microscope to study fruit flies hoping it will help them speed up research into human diseases.

Mars rovers have teams of human experts on Earth telling them what to do. But robots on lander missions to moons orbiting Saturn or Jupiter are too far away to receive timely commands from Earth ...