Harvard's RoboBee will one day conduct artificial pollination and survey disaster zones, but first it has to stop crash landing.

At optimal settings, the robot achieves a lift-to-drag ratio of 0.7 — respectable for such a tiny craft — and a lift-to-power ratio of 0.072 newtons per watt. That’s enough to keep it aloft ...

RoboBee now lands safely, thanks to insect-inspired legs and a smarter controller designed by Harvard engineers.

Tiny flying robots could perform such useful tasks as pollinating crops inside multilevel warehouses, boosting yields while mitigating some of agriculture’s harmful impacts on the environment.

SPIDAR, a hybrid aerial-terrestrial robot, uses vectoring rotors for agile flight and crawling across diverse terrains.

Do we have the right to turn insects into cyborgs that we can control to do our bidding, including our military bidding, if they feel pain or have preferences or anxieties? Making a cyborg animals can ...

Researchers from the University of Tokyo have created a hybrid aerial-terrestrial quadruped robot that is capable of moving across both land and air. The robot, dubbed SPIDAR, which is short for ...

While autonomous drones like Tevel’s Flying Robots are already harvesting fruit globally, innovations like UC San Diego’s GRIP-tape gripper represent the next frontier in gentle produce handling.

The flying robots are not intended to replace existing systems on the ground, but rather to complement them in a targeted manner for repairs or in disaster areas, for instance. Robotic arms and 3D ...

However, a crash during landing would be fatal for the small flying robot, as the actuators and delicate wings used are very sensitive and could be damaged as a result. “In the past, if we ...