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PULLMAN, Wash. — Two insect-like robots, a mini-bug and a water strider, developed at Washington State University, are the smallest, lightest and fastest fully functional micro-robots ever known to be ...

Autonomous flight at insect scale has long been a challenge in robotics. Existing microrobots can hover or move along ...

What do a mighty morphing dinosaur, several children in a trench coat, and a swarm of smiling robots have in common? They know there’s power in numbers — at least when it comes to their constituent ...

Shape-morphing, insect-scale robots that feature an origami-inspired design and eight independently actuated degrees of freedom, powered by custom piezoelectric actuators for enhanced mechanical ...

Did you envision a giant machine assembling cars, Data from “Star Trek,” C-3PO from “Star Wars” or “The Terminator”? Most of us would probably think of something massive – or at least human size. But ...

If you’ve got curious kids who thrive on new, educational experiences, then check out the many choices at the Carnegie Science Center’s summer science camps on the North Side. From robotics to ...

When you think of intelligence-gathering robots the images that most readily come to mind today are of low-flying unmanned aerial vehicles such as the Predator drone, scanning vast regions of land ...

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 ...