Black Hornet Nano - known as just 'Black Hornet' - is one of the smallest types of surveillance drones created by Teledyne.

A robot “dog” may soon make its way from a Purdue entomology lab to fetch real-time data on tick populations in the wild.

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Tiny robots inspired by insects could soon glide across water, scouting flooded areas, monitoring pollutants, or collecting samples, thanks to a breakthrough in soft robotics. Researchers at the ...

Feast your eyes upon the autonomous “Snake Monster,” a walking hexapod robot whose insect-like gait permits it to deftly climb over obstacles and move at a respectable pace. The robot was developed at ...

Mad scientists have it so easy now. Back in days of yore, if you wanted to create a death ray or giant marauding robot, you had to find suitably shady investors. Today’s young inventors simply turn to ...

An organic synapse array enables night vision and pattern recognition in insect robots by detecting near-infrared light and triggering real-time motor responses. (Nanowerk Spotlight) Insect-scale ...

After years of closely studying the water strider’s ability to walk and leap off the surface of water, researchers from Seoul National University and Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired ...

The Nature Index 2024 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...