Innovations Cyborg cockroaches are coming, and they just want to help. Inspired by insects, robotic engineers are creating machines that could aid in search and rescue, pollinate plants and sniff ...

CRAM, the cockroach-inspired robot that can keep moving even when squished to half its size. Tom Libby, Kaushik Jayaram and Pauline Jennings – courtesy of PolyPEDAL Lab, UC Berkeley.

Cockroaches "seem to be able to go anywhere," said University of California at Berkeley biology professor Robert Full, co-author of a study about the prototype cockroach robot.

It’s also almost as hardy as a real cockroach, as the researchers repeatedly applied pressure to it by stepping on it. “Most of the robots at this particular small scale are very fragile.

Robots Infiltrate, Influence Cockroach Groups To explore how cockroaches make group decisions, scientists created a robot that smells like a cockroach and follows some basic roach rules. And what ...

We've all tried to kill a cockroach only to watch it scurry away at a super-fast pace. One of nature's creepiest insects, as it turns out, has inspired reseachers to create a very tiny robot that ...

Inspired by cockroaches, researchers have built a palm-sized, six-legged robot that can squish down to half its height to fit through small spaces. The bot could one day be used for search and ...

Still, a cockroach-inspired robot can be unsettling. So I’ve come up with a way to make it a bit more palatable. Instead of imaging it running up your bedroom walls, ...

Their findings have inspired robots with legs like those of cockroaches and crabs as well as sticky feet like those of geckos. Full, 25 years ago, discovered that American cockroaches can run on two ...

Kessens said cockroach-inspired, self-righting robots would be a valuable asset on the battlefield. "Soldiers have reported tip-over of existing robotic systems as a significant issue," he said.

Cephalopod suction was previously thought to be a product of these creatures’ soft, flexible bodies, which can deform easily ...

When encountering a difficult environment, however, the team’s robot can narrow from 1.3 inches wide to just 0.8 inches narrow. With more refinement, Jayaram’s team believes future CLARI ...