Ever tried to stamp on a pesky insect only to see it scuttle off once you raise your shoe? You may soon have the same difficulty eradicating tiny robots, because a simple machine seems to have been ...

Can a robot learn to navigate like a cockroach? To help researchers find out if a mechanical device can mimic the pesky insect's behavior, a Johns Hopkins engineering student has built a flexible, ...

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 ...

Considering their relatively tiny size, cockroaches are pretty darn invincible. Having evolved as scavengers able to operate in some seriously unsanitary conditions, these natural survivors have a ...

UC Berkeley researchers built a cockroach-inspired robot that could help in search-and-rescue missions. No matter how hard researchers try, cockroaches will never be cool. Miniature robots that can ...

When they turn up in family pantries or restaurant kitchens, cockroaches are commonly despised as ugly, unhealthy pests and are quickly killed. But in the name of science, Johns Hopkins researchers ...

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 ...

Not only do cockroaches give many people the creeps, but often when you step on one of the critters, it just keeps on scurrying. Such resilience would be a good feature for mini-robots designed to ...

We've all tried to kill a cockroach only to watch it scurry away at a super-fast pace. One of nature's creepiest insects, as it turns out, has inspired reseachers to create a very tiny robot that ...

Robots are becoming more advanced, especially the little ones. Now there are tiny robots that, among other increasingly impressive things, can move like spiders (that you can build yourself), and that ...

We’ve all tried to kill a cockroach only to watch it scurry away at a super-fast pace. One of nature’s creepiest insects, as it turns out, has inspired researchers to create a very tiny robot that ...

Dubbed HAMR-JR, a new microrobot is a half-scale version of the cockroach-inspired Harvard Ambulatory Microrobot or HAMR. About the size of a penny, HAMR-JR can perform almost all of the feats of its ...