Russia’s state atomic energy corporation Rosatom has unveiled a new “spider robot” capable of inspecting welds in nuclear reactor components three times faster than traditional methods. Developed by ...

The BMSRs are manipulated by a 6-DOF robotic arm to generate rotating magnetic fields. They can crawl on inclined surfaces (including upside-down motion) and navigate the GI tract with endoscopic ...

It’s well understood that spiders have poor eyesight and thus sense the vibrations in their webs whenever prey (like a fly) gets caught; the web serves as an extension of their sensory system. But ...