The latest toy robot from Parrot, maker of the popular AR.Drone quadcopter, is now shipping a two-wheeled jumping robot that you control with your smartphone. WSJ Personal Tech Editor Wilson Rothman ...

Just a week after a sci-fi flick about boxer robots knocked out the competition at the box office, the Science Museum of Western Virginia will hold a workshop for building "Sumo Robots." There'll be a ...

Insect-scale robots can squeeze into places their larger counterparts can't, like deep into a collapsed building to search for survivors after an earthquake. However, as they move through the rubble, ...

Springtails, small bugs often found crawling through leaf litter and garden soil, are expert jumpers. Inspired by these hopping hexapods, roboticists have made a walking, jumping robot that pushes the ...

A team of engineers from the University of Illinois has published the first known study documenting the long-jumping motion of 3D-printed insect-scale robots. “To my knowledge, this is the first time ...

Springtails, small bugs often found crawling through leaf litter and garden soil, are expert jumpers. Inspired by these hopping hexapods, roboticists in the Harvard John A. Paulson School of ...