WASHINGTON: When buildings collapse in future disasters, the hero helping rescue trapped people may be a robotic cockroach. Repulsive as they may be, roaches have the remarkable ability to squish ...

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 ...

Rolls-Royce Holdings, one of the world's leading aerospace engine manufacturing companies, announced the development of a "small robot that enters the engine of an airplane and scans the state around ...

SINGAPORE — Scientists in Singapore have industrialised the production of remote-controlled cyborg cockroaches that one day could form a tiny army suitable for disaster search missions. Last month, ...

A scuttling robot cockroach has been developed that mimics the insect's creepy ability to squeeze through the narrowest gaps. Just like a real 'roach, the palm-sized mechanised bug can keep crawling ...

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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - People use a lot of words to describe the reviled cockroach: disgusting, ugly, sneaky and repulsive, to name a few. But it may be time to add a surprising new one: inspirational ...