How small is Northwestern University’s robot crab? It’s sit-on-the-side-of-a-penny small. It’s half a millimeter wide — making it even smaller than a common flea. Researchers behind it have determined ...

If it wasn’t bad enough that robots are going to take over humanity one day, let’s just go ahead and make them smaller before they do. But we can’t just make them smaller, we need to give them ...

Northwestern Engineering researchers have developed the smallest-ever remote-controlled walking robot — and it comes in the form of a tiny, adorable peekytoe crab. Just a half-millimeter wide, the ...

The first units are expected to ship to customers in the US in 2026. There is a $499 monthly subscription alternative to the ...

What walks like a crab, is as small as a flea and can be remote-controlled? The latest gee-whiz wireless gizmo designed by robotics engineers. The walking robot, created to look like a peekytoe crab, ...

(Nanowerk News) For decades, scientists have envisioned a future where nimble robots could traverse rugged terrain and squeeze into tight spaces, ideal for search and rescue missions, industrial ...

A study on the new robots titled "Submillimeter-scale multimaterial terrestrial robots" has been published in the journal Science Robotics. Exploratory research by engineers from Northwestern ...

US company BurnBot presented its RX2 robot for wildfire fighting to officials in Nevada County, California. The robot can burn swaths into the ground, thus preventing the spread of wildfires or ...

Spykee is an odd little $300 robot “toy” that’s everything from a webcam to digital music player to VoIP phone and can be controlled via WiFi. Spykee ships with software that allows it to be ...

Lod, Israel — An Israeli defense contractor on Monday unveiled a remote-controlled armed robot it says can patrol battle zones, track infiltrators and open fire. The unmanned vehicle is the latest ...

Operator Smart Communications, a subsidiary of telecommunications company PLDT, says it has piloted the use of a ...