While much insight has been gleaned from how grasshoppers hop, their gliding prowess has mostly been overlooked. Now ...

China has successfully developed a moon robot with both limbs and wheels—presumably to be used to extract resources from the ...

Princeton engineers investigated the secret to grasshoppers' efficient gliding, inspiring a new approach for robotic flight.

Tiny flying robots have always faced a brutal trade-off between agility and battery life, burning through power just to stay ...

Grasshopper’s gangly, awkward flight could solve the biggest power problems in robotics. Standard micro-bots are modeled ...

We look back at some of the many robots that iRobot developed in addition to the Roomba over the past 35 years.

For years, the future was envisioned as clean lines and loud machinery. Flying vehicles, metal outfits, and flashing weapons.

By studying the natural world, scientists find blueprints for innovations that can improve human lives—in the genes of a ...

A collaboration between Princeton University engineers and entomologists at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign began ...

At CES 2026, Beatbot arrived with two announcements and a ‘world’s first’ in automated pool cleaning.

Tracy Letts’ “Bug,” starring his wife, Carrie Coon, debuted in the’90s, yet it still has the capacity to shock audiences — at ...

Beatbot AquaSense X debuts at CES 2026 with the world's first self-cleaning station and a push toward more autonomous pool care.