Black Hornet Nano - known as just 'Black Hornet' - is one of the smallest types of surveillance drones created by Teledyne.

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Mad scientists have it so easy now. Back in days of yore, if you wanted to create a death ray or giant marauding robot, you had to find suitably shady investors. Today’s young inventors simply turn to ...

Feast your eyes upon the autonomous “Snake Monster,” a walking hexapod robot whose insect-like gait permits it to deftly climb over obstacles and move at a respectable pace. The robot was developed at ...

A robot “dog” may soon make its way from a Purdue entomology lab to fetch real-time data on tick populations in the wild. It’s just one example of how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming ...

An organic synapse array enables night vision and pattern recognition in insect robots by detecting near-infrared light and triggering real-time motor responses. (Nanowerk Spotlight) Insect-scale ...

Harold Ilano was tired of playing Final Fantasies Seven through Nine on his PS1, so what did he do? He took the thing apart, salvaged its innards, and made a robot insect out of it. Not only does it ...

After years of closely studying the water strider’s ability to walk and leap off the surface of water, researchers from Seoul National University and Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired ...

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 ...