Switzerland’s Bio-Inspired-Robotics Lab was inspired by spiders. From the way the spindly eight-legged creatures create draglines to how they use their spinnerets to navigate, researchers Liyu Wang, ...

Portugal’s wildfire crisis is out of control: between 1980 and 2023, more than 1.2 million acres of forest-54% of the country’s territory-were burned. And many of those fires tore through mountainous ...

A team of engineers and plant pathologists are developing a spider-shaped robot as the latest weapon in the war against a devastating crop disease. Curcurbits are a large family of plants that include ...

Construction robots are no longer a far-off idea. They're already changing job sites by tackling repetitive, heavy, and often dangerous tasks. The latest robot comes from Australia, where a ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment.View full profile Rachael has a degree in Zoology ...

The BMSRs are manipulated by a 6-DOF robotic arm to generate rotating magnetic fields. They can crawl on inclined surfaces (including upside-down motion) and navigate the GI tract with endoscopic ...

A tiny spider inspired soft robot designed at the University of Macau can roll, climb, and even move upside down inside the digestive tract. Guided by magnetic fields and real time imaging, it may one ...