Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tiny robots inspired by insects could soon glide across water, scouting flooded areas, monitoring pollutants, or collecting ...

Kaushik Jayaram envisions a day when swarms of tiny robots, some weighing no more than a paperclip, will crawl through airplanes or into buildings after an earthquake—searching for survivors or ...

Just like bees, the individual robots in this simulation have no master plan. Simply by responding to local cues, they are able to construct honeycomb-like structures. The method could presage a new ...

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IIT-Kanpur has successfully made the science fiction- ‘Spy Bug’ into a real thing. This robotic bug which is inspired by several idioms and sci-fi examples is called ‘Insect-Copter’, a small bug-like ...

Rapid declines in insect populations are leading to concerns that the pollination of important crops could soon come under threat. Tiny flying robots designed by MIT researchers could one day provide ...