A new prototype is laying claim to the title of smallest, lightest untethered flying robot. At less than a centimeter in ...

Harvard University has had the flying robot insect market covered for a long ... and they’ve shown it capable of staying aloft once launched with a small catapult. Since they’ve proven that ...

decided to try this approach and experimented with a simple navigation technique to allow a swarm of tiny flying robots to explore an unknown environment. The main application researchers have in ...

A tiny robot is able to transform its form and function ... and from sailing to even flying. Named "Primer" by the team at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL ...

Salto the jumping robot can take a flying leap and land on a narrow pipe — just like a squirrel soaring from branch to branch.

(Program not available for streaming.) Drones. These unmanned flying robots–some as large as jumbo jets, others as small as birds–do things straight out of science fiction. Much of what it ...

“If I have a robot and I want it to perceive the environment, I tend to put a larger, high fidelity lidar system on it. Flies instead have small, low-quality sensors throughout their bodies. Due to ...

Scientists at China's Beihang University developed a tiny morphable robot to explore the ocean's depths — and it's now taken a dive into the Mariana Trench. The team successfully demonstrated ...

Free-flying robots hold great promise for a variety of terrestrial and space exploration activities, such as mapping novel environments or collecting data from inaccessible locations or from locations ...