Picture a robot controlled by micromotors so small and light that it suspends itself over water like a bug. With engineers at the University of Virginia, that’s now an achievable reality. With their ...

Scientists have developed HydroSpread, a novel technique for building soft robots on water, with wide-ranging possibilities in robotics, healthcare, and environmental monitoring. Picture a miniature ...

Imagine a tiny robot, no bigger than a leaf, gliding across a pond’s surface like a water strider. One day, devices like this could track pollutants, collect water samples or scout flooded areas too ...

After years of closely studying the water strider’s ability to walk and leap off the surface of water, researchers from Seoul National University and Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired ...

The field of robotics has come a long way over the past few years. Whereas up until not long ago robots that are useful in one way or another were mostly to be found in fixed positions inside ...

DETROIT - No, your eyes are not deceiving you. You really did see an actual robot walking around the streets of Detroit. You may have even seen it running and waving, or maybe you shook its hand. The ...

Robots already fill innumerable roles in modern life, from the self-driving Roombas that vacuum our floors to the airborne drones that snap images from above. But are we getting closer to a day when ...