A robot dog has been sent into a potentially hazardous area of a nuclear power site to switch back on a mothballed piece of equipment. The four-legged machine - called Spot - reactivated a crane ...

jointed legs much like those of the crane fly. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the RoboBee, it's a bee-inspired robot that flies by flapping a tiny pair of artificial-muscle-equipped wings.

The crane fly has long, jointed appendages that ... to determine the effects of oscillation on the newly designed robotic legs and leg joints. This involved manually disturbing the leg and then ...

The robot, called Spot, used a pole to press a button and reactivate the crane A robot dog has been sent into a potentially hazardous area of a nuclear power site to switch back on a mothballed ...