Called CRAM (Compressible Robot and Articulated Mechanisms), the new robot looks a bit like the torso of an armadillo but owes much of its movement to the inspirational cockroach. The CRAM robot, ...

Robots need to think like cockroaches if they want to walk up and down stairs, an international conference will hear this week. Neuroscientist Professor Roy Ritzmann and robot researcher Professor ...

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 ...

Berkeley, California - US-based researchers have created a robot that can use its body shape to move through a densely cluttered environment. The team from the University of California, Berkeley based ...

Many a mother has said, with a sigh, "If your friends jumped off a cliff, would you jump too?" The answer, for cockroaches at least, may well be yes. Researchers using robotic roaches were able to ...

A cockroach-inspired robot can handle complicated and bumpy terrain. It could be used for surveying earthquake rubble or even other planets. The robot, called Omni-Roach, has a rounded body, wings ...

Three cockroaches squeeze though a 3mm crevice under a room door at different stages of traversal, in this undated handout photo courtesy of PolyPEDAL Lab, UC Berkeley. REUTERS/Tom Libby, Kaushik ...

Scientists have made a robot that moves and interacts socially with cockroaches, slithers like a salamander and even learns and make decisions like humans. The new designs, reported in the journal ...

US scientists have come up with a robot cockroach that can squeeze through small spaces like the real bug and believe something similar could be used to locate survivors in collapsed buildings. Nature ...