One day a tiny robotic cockroach could save lives. UC Berkeley engineers driven by such a vision are ebullient this winter over DASH - a cheap, lightweight, six-legged robotic cockroach that can ...

Can a robot learn to navigate like a cockroach? To help researchers find out if a mechanical device can mimic the pesky insect's behavior, a Johns Hopkins engineering student has built a flexible, ...

Considering their relatively tiny size, cockroaches are pretty darn invincible. Having evolved as scavengers able to operate in some seriously unsanitary conditions, these natural survivors have a ...

Ever tried to stamp on a pesky insect only to see it scuttle off once you raise your shoe? You may soon have the same difficulty eradicating tiny robots, because a simple machine seems to have been ...

When they turn up in family pantries or restaurant kitchens, cockroaches are commonly despised as ugly, unhealthy pests and are quickly killed. But in the name of science, Johns Hopkins researchers ...

Swarms of rod-like, self-propelled robots have been made to work together to navigate obstacles in a new study by Hamid Kellay of the University of Bordeaux and colleagues. Resembling cockroaches, the ...

Researchers at Harvard have created a tiny cockroach-inspired robot that's only about the size of a penny and weighs just 0.3 grams. It can run, jump, carry heavy payloads relative to its size — and ...

Many a mother has said, with a sigh, "If your friends jumped off a cliff, would you jump too?" The answer, for cockroaches at least, may well be yes. Researchers using robotic roaches were able to ...

Dubbed HAMR-JR, a new microrobot is a half-scale version of the cockroach-inspired Harvard Ambulatory Microrobot or HAMR. About the size of a penny, HAMR-JR can perform almost all of the feats of its ...

The brain of an insect isn't very big, but bugs in a swarm are somehow able to make decisions of startling complexity. Bees, ants and cockroaches build labyrinthine hives with thousands of workers ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - People use a lot of words to describe the reviled cockroach: disgusting, ugly, sneaky and repulsive, to name a few. But it may be time to add a surprising new one: inspirational ...

Researchers build a robot that moves more like a cockroach. When they turn up in family pantries or restaurant kitchens, cockroaches are commonly despised as ugly, unhealthy pests and are quickly ...