One robot weighs 55 milligrams, while its parter is just 5 milligrams. Developed by a team of WSU researchers and recently presented at the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society’s International ...

Water striders are fascinating to watch, as they scoot across the water while supported by surface tension. Scientists have now built a tiny robotic version of the insect, which utilizes a ...

Two insect-like robots, a mini-bug and a water strider may be the smallest, lightest and fastest fully functional micro-robots ever known to be created. Such miniature robots could someday be used for ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Andrew Dickerson, University of Tennessee (THE CONVERSATION) Microplastics are tiny ...

This biomimetic robot, powered by bacteria in water, can collect water temperature, pollution levels, biological and craft movement, and data as an element of the Ocean of Things—indefinitely. Why is ...

Water striders are tiny insects that have a surprising ability to survive impacts with raindrops dozens of times heavier than they are. Slow-motion videos of them getting smashed by water have ...

A collaborative team of researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, the Georgia Institute of Technology, and Ajou University in South Korea has revealed that the unique fan-like ...