Wood, Charles River Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences at SEAS, researchers in the Harvard Microrobotics Laboratory have developed a centimeter-scale robot inspired by cockroaches.

This ‘Microspine technology’ enables their T-RHex robot to climb up walls at a slightly ... No doubt we will all now want to build cockroaches that will out perform the T-RHex.

From fields of grass to cracks in the wall, there's almost nowhere you won't find cockroaches. Now, scientists have created a roach-inspired robot with a rounded shell, which was able to clamber ...

Cockroaches withstood forces nearly nine hundred times body weight without injury, explaining their robustness to compression! Cockroach exoskeletons provided inspiration for a soft, legged search-and ...

There's a reason cockroaches are supposed to be the one ... Robert Full designed and constructed CRAM, the Compressive Robot with Articulated Mechanisms. This robotic roach could be used to ...

Bristlebots are one of our favorite projects to teach young hackers the basics of electronics. They’re easy to build, fun, and most importantly — cute. Usually you make them out of the head of ...

HAMR-Jr is only slightly bigger in length and width than a penny, making it one of the smallest yet highly capable, high-speed insect-scale robots. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not ...