“Traditional endoscopes cause a lot of discomfort and cannot easily access complex deeper regions inside the body,” Xu told ...

A social media page that frequently posts fabricated stories about alien life shared another outlandish tale about alien ...

Robotic ‘spiders’ could be the key to building large-scale structures in space, according to ESA’s Advanced Concepts Team. The tiny mechanical spiders would inch their way across large nets of fabric ...

The robot zoo has gained another member. Engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder have created a small robot spider that can passively shapeshift, allowing it to squeeze through narrow spaces ...

Research on turning dead spiders into robot-claws called “necrobots” and a “smart” toilet innovation to identify a person from their “analprint” are among this year’s Ig Nobel prize recipients. The Ig ...

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 ...

It’s well understood that spiders have poor eyesight and thus sense the vibrations in their webs whenever prey (like a fly) gets caught; the web serves as an extension of their sensory system. But ...

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Construction robots have been around for a while, automating challenging tasks on job sites. The new kid on this block is called Charlotte, and it's billed as being autonomously capable of building a ...

Its newly launched spider robot can carry out ultrasonic inspections of welds 30 centimetres thick three times faster than ...