Burlington, Ont., student Evan Budz hopes his award-winning bionic turtle invention will help make underwater ecosystems ...

A Korean research team has created a light-driven artificial muscle that functions independently underwater, advancing the future of soft robotics. The system, developed by the Korea Research ...

Although we've seen a number of different robotic water striders over the years, scientists are still finding clever new aspects of the insects to replicate. Recently, for instance, researchers ...

Imagine tiny robots zipping across the surface of a lake to check water quality or searching for people in flooded areas.

Carnegie Mellon scientists create AggreBots, tiny lung-cell robots powered by cilia with controlled motility.Word excerpt: ...

Rhagobot isn’t exactly the first thing that comes to mind at the mention of a robot. Inspired by Rhagovelia water striders, semiaquatic insects also known as ripple bugs, these tiny bots can glide ...

A technique called HydroSpread forms ultrathin films directly on water, allowing engineers to build insect-like robots for ...

When it comes to innovation, nature often gets there first. For millions of years, plants and animals have been adapting, optimizing, and surviving through elegant solutions to life’s toughest ...

Wading in the creek behind University of Delaware’s The College School, elementary students laughed and cheered as they met a challenge their teacher Laurie Drumm posed only a few months prior: build ...

Inspired by the remarkable flight capabilities of birds, bats, and insects, flapping-wing robotics represents one of the most promising frontiers in bio-inspired aerial systems, demonstrating enhanced ...