Ever tried to stamp on a pesky insect only to see it scuttle off once you raise your shoe? You may soon have the same difficulty eradicating tiny robots, because a simple machine seems to have been ...

Can a robot learn to navigate in the dark like a cockroach? A Johns Hopkins engineering undergrad, working in his professor's robotics lab, has built a flexible, sensor-laden antenna to make it ...

When buildings collapse in future disasters, the hero helping rescue trapped people may be a robotic cockroach.

Berkeley, California - US-based researchers have created a robot that can use its body shape to move through a densely cluttered environment. The team from the University of California, Berkeley based ...

Swarms of rod-like, self-propelled robots have been made to work together to navigate obstacles in a new study by Hamid Kellay of the University of Bordeaux and colleagues. Resembling cockroaches, the ...

Researchers at Harvard have created a tiny cockroach-inspired robot that's only about the size of a penny and weighs just 0.3 grams. It can run, jump, carry heavy payloads relative to its size — and ...

When they turn up in family pantries or restaurant kitchens, cockroaches are commonly despised as ugly, unhealthy pests and are quickly killed. But in the name of science, Johns Hopkins researchers ...

A new cockroach-inspired roachbot can withstand weights of up to 1 million times its body weight. It can also carry heavy loads, climb slopes, and move at speeds of seven body lengths per second ...

(Nanowerk News) Dubbed HAMR-JR, this microrobot developed by Harvard researchers is a half-scale version of the cockroach-inspired Harvard Ambulatory Microrobot or HAMR. About the size of a penny, ...

The brain of an insect isn't very big, but bugs in a swarm are somehow able to make decisions of startling complexity. Bees, ants and cockroaches build labyrinthine hives with thousands of workers ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - People use a lot of words to describe the reviled cockroach: disgusting, ugly, sneaky and repulsive, to name a few. But it may be time to add a surprising new one: inspirational ...

Dubbed HAMR-JR, a new microrobot is a half-scale version of the cockroach-inspired Harvard Ambulatory Microrobot or HAMR. About the size of a penny, HAMR-JR can perform almost all of the feats of its ...