As scientists in the Netherlands tried to figure out how to build a super-agile flying robot, they took inspiration from one of nature's most acrobatic flyers: The humble fruit fly. And by ...

Researchers are using ultra high-speed cameras to study hummingbird flight, so they can build better flying robots.

Researchers build miniature flying robots, modeled on Drosophila Piezoelectric muscles flap tiny, gossamer wings.

Engineers building airborne robots at Stanford have been taking how-to-do-it lessons from hummingbirds and parrots. Using the highest of high-speed movie cameras, they are able to study the birds ...

A new prototype is laying claim to the title of smallest, lightest untethered flying robot. At less than a centimeter in wingspan, the wirelessly powered robot is currently very limited in how far ...

Instead, making a flying spider involves equipping it with more active equipment. The problem is that just packing a multi-legged robot with enough servo motors and batteries to crawl around on ...

Flying robots made from cellophane? Researchers have discovered that cellulose is a smart material that can flap when exposed to an electric field.

If you want a robot to maneuver aggressively, it has to be small. As you scale things down, the "moment of inertia"—the resistance to angular motion—drops dramatically. Our nano-quadrotor ...

Flying robots that play the James Bond theme song? Micro-robots powered by bacteria? A car that drives itself? They may sound like works of science-fiction, but Vijay Kumar of Penn's General ...

The way bats rapidly flap their wings in flight could inspire new designs of flying robots, according to a new study.

Robotics experts at Caltech and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have created a robot that mimics the flight patterns of bats, including swerving and diving.