The worlds smallest robot failing insect called the Robo-Fly which has been created by Harvard University developers has been demonstrated this week. The Robo-Fly is constructed from carbon fibre, and ...

A fly-sized flying robot doesn’t crash and burn thanks to an onboard light sensor inspired by those of live flies and honeybees. These insects have ocelli — three light sensors that are distinct from ...

It was almost Kitty Hawk for the micromachine crowd. Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, achieved the first limited flight of the smallest-ever flapping-wing machine. Berkeley’s ...

Discover the innovative robotic insect based on the blowfly, developed by UC Berkeley Robotics Lab to aid in environmental monitoring. While some of their colleagues develop robotic cats and dogs, an ...

Micro drone US scientists have created a tiny winged robot that can fly. To get a fly-sized drone off the ground, the scientists have had to overcome issues of weight, aerodynamics of wing flapping, ...

We all know that our gadgets keep getting smaller and smaller; we start out with cell phones the size of bricks, then we get our StarTacs, then our RAZRs, and pretty soon, we're talking into some ...