ホタルの成虫は、夏になると水辺を飛び回りながら発光器官を光らせ、異性をひきつけようとします。このホタルの発光器官からヒントを得て、アクチュエーターで空を飛ぶ昆虫サイズのロボットに発光粒子を埋め込むことで、光りながら飛び回る超小型 ...

A 301 mg soft robot jumps continuously under constant light without batteries or electronics, using snap-through buckling and self-shadowing to create an autonomous feedback loop. (Nanowerk Spotlight) ...

China has successfully developed a moon robot with both limbs and wheels—presumably to be used to extract resources from the ...

MIT researchers have demonstrated aerial microrobots that can fly with speed and agility that is comparable to their ...

デルフト工科大学の小型飛行ロボットを開発する研究所・Mavlabに所属する研究者が、昆虫の機敏な動きを模倣することで、従来の飛行ロボットでは実現できなかった細かな動作が可能な小型飛行ロボット「DelFly Nimble」を開発し、科学誌のScience上で発表し ...

In the future, tiny flying robots could be deployed to aid in the search for survivors trapped beneath the rubble after a devastating earthquake. Like real insects, these robots could flit through ...

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 ...

If you think the world doesn't need a swarm of robotic flies you’re wrong. Seriously. We meet the team behind RoboFly, who have big plans after a huge breakthrough. A swarm of tiny flying robots seems ...

Thanks to a Chinese team's innovation, the colony of microbots from Disney's animated feature Big Hero 6 is inching closer to reality. At a laboratory in Beijing, a nimble, tiny bionic robot ...