If I was a scientist, I’d hope everything I created would weird people out. This is why I’ve got such glowing admiration for the team of researchers who have created a tiny robot spider that could one ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Less than 0.2 inches long and stylish to the point of gaudiness ...

The latest machine to join this biomimetic motley crew is Z6, a portable and foldable spider robot designed by the Hong Kong-based company Robugtix. Boasting a compact form and foldable design, the ...

Researchers have developed an integrated fabrication process that for the very first time enables the design of soft robots on the millimeter scale with micrometer-scale features. To demonstrate the ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Robotic engineers are no stranger to turning to nature for ...

Gastrointestinal cancers rank among the deadliest in the world, yet they often grow in places doctors struggle to reach. If you have ever heard someone describe an endoscopy as painful or ...

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 ...

Festo, a German automation company, recently introduced the BionicWheelBot, a robot that walks and rolls. Taking cues from nature, it is modeled after the Moroccan flic-flac spider, which walks, ...