Houseflies stretch their legs to land. Bumblebees hover, then slowly descend. Now, insect-sized flying robots have a way to stick the landing, too. A tiny aerial bot about the size of a bee (nicknamed ...

Inspired by the humble bee, robotics researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have designed insect-sized aerial bots with a reimagined wing system that can fly for up to 1,000 ...

AN OPEN window hundreds of metres up in a sheer glass tower block. No machine could reach it, surely? Step forward an insect-bot, with sticky feet that help it climb. All insects squirt a sticky fluid ...

Harvard’s impressive RoboBee has developed from an insect-inspired robot to a soon-to-be autonomous flying micro-drone. Robot developers have longed looked at nature for inspiration. When designing ...