Technology takes inspiration from all kinds of places, most notably nature, and this robot prototype takes its inspiration from a tiny animal.

Ground Control Robotics (GCR) Inc., a startup company seeking to commercialize a centipede-like robot developed at Georgia Institute of Technology, may be on the verge of acquiring its first customers ...

Nature has spent millions of years perfecting movement, efficiency, and survival. Engineers are now borrowing those evolutionary lessons to build robots capable of tackling some of humanity’s toughest ...

What makes many animals run faster and better than robots or humans? Robots run faster than humans due to better agility, robustness, and range. Believe it or not, robot cockroaches can assist ...

Researchers have developed an Artificial Intelligence (AI) system that enables a four-legged robot to adapt its gait to different, unfamiliar terrain, just like a real animal, in what is believed to ...

Learn more about a fish-inspired robot and what it can teach us about how animals first left the water and began moving on land. In the swamps of Southeast Asia, changing temperatures can cause water ...

From flocks of birds to fish schools in the sea, or towering termite mounds, many social groups in nature exist together to survive and thrive. This cooperative behaviour can be used by engineers as ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Could this be the future of surgery? (UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering) For the first time ever, humanoid robots operated by ...

Humanoid robots have surgically removed the gallbladders from living animals in an unprecedented medical experiment—but not as autonomous machines capable of replacing human doctors. Instead, skilled ...