Harvard's RoboBee will one day conduct artificial pollination and survey disaster zones, but first it has to stop crash ...

As previously reported, the ultimate goal of the RoboBee initiative is to build a swarm of tiny interconnected robots capable ...

Inspired by this natural design, the engineers outfitted the RoboBee with its own set of long, double-jointed legs. These new ...

Even if you've built one of the world's most advanced insect-inspired micro air vehicles (MAVs), it ultimately won't be that useful if it can't stick a good landing. That's why scientists at Harvard ...

RoboBee offers diminutive size and insect-like flight prowess for a range of potential scientific, commercial, and emergency ...

The RoboBee is already a little older. It has now been upgraded with a landing gear and a flight control system that enable ...

A recently created RoboBee is now outfitted with its most reliable landing gear to date, inspired by one of nature's most graceful landers: the crane fly. The team has given their flying robot a set ...

Harvard’s tiny flying robot, known as the RoboBee, has just gotten a major upgrade that makes landing much safer and smoother. Inspired by the long legs of crane flies, engineers have given the robot ...

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Robert Wood, a professor at Harvard University, said on the 17th, "The ultra-small flying robot RoboBee has developed technology that helps it land smoothly and gracefully from the air to the ground." ...

The Harvard RoboBee has long shown it can fly, dive, and hover like a real insect. But what good is the miracle of flight without a safe way to land? A storied engineering achievement by the ...