Fighter plane tails were dramatically reshaped after the advent of “fly-by-wire” controls, rendering the aircraft’s stability ...

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. -- Robots wag their tail fins and bob along like bathtub toys in a pool at a Vassar College lab. Their actions are dictated by microprocessors housed in round plastic containers, ...

File shows a robot that uses the kind of motion seen in the mudskipper to move across a granular surface. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the July 8, 2016 issue of Science, published ...