An orange wheel rolls across concrete and suddenly jumps, as if it decided to ...

According to past experiments, big-eared bats use leaves as acoustic mirrors to hunt silent insects. The theory stated that ...

In the future, farmers could grow fruits and vegetables in multilevel warehouses with the help of more efficient methods for ...

This spinning-mass principle drives several robots in development. One is a remote-controlled wheel that jumps when the ...

A 301 mg soft robot jumps continuously under constant light without batteries or electronics, using snap-through buckling and self-shadowing to create an autonomous feedback loop. (Nanowerk Spotlight) ...

CAMBRIDGE, MA — With a more efficient method for artificial pollination, farmers in the future could grow fruits and vegetables inside multilevel warehouses, boosting yields while mitigating some of ...

Scientists built a robot to help explain how a tropical bat spots insects perched on leaves using echolocation, a highly ...

China has successfully developed a moon robot with both limbs and wheels—presumably to be used to extract resources from the lunar surface.

Rapid declines in insect populations are leading to concerns that the pollination of important crops could soon come under threat. Tiny flying robots designed by MIT researchers could one day provide ...