Recent DARPA robots include sea-based microdrones, cockroach-style surveillance bots, and even cyborg insects.

One animal-inspired micro robot is the RoboBee, a device weighing less than a tenth of a gram, developed at Harvard’s Wyss ...

This has been demonstrated in Hawaii, where mosquitoes were used to combat diseases such as malaria and dengue. This has been achieved through the genetic modification of common bacteria in male ...

Mechanical and mythical Singaporean creatures take centre stage at the Unnatural History Museum of Singapore exhibition, which has been created as part of this year's Singapore Design Week. Installed ...

For those who can’t stand creepy-crawlies, brace yourselves: at the “Unnatural History Museum of Singapore”, a special commission conceptualised for the upcoming Singapore Design Week (SDW) and staged ...

Scientists at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have created an automated cyborg insect "factory line." According to its developers, the new prototype artificial intelligence ...

Abstract: Bio-inspired swarm robotics is an emerging field at the intersection of biology, robotics, and artificial intelligence, offering novel capabilities by integrating living organisms with ...

In a groundbreaking fusion of nature and technology, researchers at the University of Queensland have developed remote-controlled beetles equipped with tiny, removable backpacks that could drastically ...

Cockroaches may become unlikely heroes in the case of earthquakes or other disasters. But we’re not talking about your run-of-the-mill cockroach. We’re talking about a surgically enhanced creature ...

As if cockroaches weren’t creepy enough already, researchers have found a way to make them even more so. A team at the University of Osaka is using UV light helmets to direct cyborg cockroaches. The ...