As scientists in the Netherlands tried to figure out how to build a super-agile flying robot, they took inspiration from one of nature's most acrobatic flyers: The humble fruit fly. And by ...

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If you want a robot to maneuver aggressively, it has to be small. As you scale things down, the "moment of inertia"—the resistance to angular motion—drops dramatically. Our nano-quadrotor ...

Researchers are using ultra high-speed cameras to study hummingbird flight, so they can build better flying robots.

Researchers build miniature flying robots, modeled on Drosophila Piezoelectric muscles flap tiny, gossamer wings.

You might remember RoboBee, an insect-sized robot that flies by flapping its wings. Unfortunately, though, it has to be hard-wired to a power source. Well, one of RoboBee's creators has now helped ...

Researchers developed a novel learning-based method so robots on extraterrestrial bodies can make decisions on their own about where and how to scoop up terrain samples.

Want to own a flying robot Dragonfly? Starting at $99, this tiny UAV is capable of hovering quietly in midair and taking high-definition pictures.

Flying robots that play the James Bond theme song? Micro-robots powered by bacteria? A car that drives itself? They may sound like works of science-fiction, but Vijay Kumar of Penn's General ...