Even the tiniest of living things are capable of some amazing forms of locomotion, and some come with highly sophisticated sensor suites and manage to source their energy from the environment.

Researchers in the US have developed a shape-shifting robot that, unlike traditional drones which must land before switching to ground mode, can transition seamlessly from air to land without missing ...

If you cast your minds back to the appearance of the Sony Rolly, you’ll remember it flapped its wings, but like a little chick, it couldn’t take flight. Someone, somewhere, taught one of the rolling ...

Weighing less than a paper clip, they can stay aloft more than 100 times longer than previous designs. Tiny flying robots could perform such useful tasks as pollinating crops inside multilevel ...

A pigeon-inspired robot has solved the mystery of how birds fly without the vertical tail fins that human-designed aircraft rely on. Its makers say the prototype could eventually lead to passenger ...

US Naval Research Laboratory scientists have successfully trained an Astrobee zero-gravity robot to fly in space without ...