biomimetics

Jellyfish are the most efficient swimmers in the ocean, albeit fairly slow ones. Researchers at Stanford University…

Scientists have developed an adhesive that is both sticky and reusable thanks to inspiration from snail mucus,…

Stanford’s μTug minibots are on a roll lately.

“Soft,” “amorphous,” and “bladder” aren’t words usually associated with robots. But NASA’s changing that with new…

The sperm whale has an internal organ that has been of much interest to scientists for decades. What’s surprising is…

In this video, snakes are forced to slither between two boards. The boards are placed successively closer together…

Spider crickets are masters of aerodynamics. They don’t have wings, but they can jump up to 60 times their body…

Cauliflower are awesome. In addition to being straight up delicious, the pattern of bumps and nobs on its surfaces…

Behold Dr. Hilary Bart-Smith of the University of Virginia's Mantabot, a silicone-winged machine based on the the…

Nowadays everyone hems and haws about the uncanny valley, but we don't realize how good we have it in the 21st…

Remember Ant-Roach, the inflatable robot that looked like the lovechild of a dildo and a wildebeest? Roboticists at…

Meet Ant-Roach, Otherlab's pneumatic robot that weights 70 pounds and can support 1000 pounds of weight. It's not…

This is MABEL, a bipedal robot who currently resides in a lab at the University of Michigan. Although MABEL has no…

They hover, spy, take photographs, fire missiles. But there's just one major problem with drones – they're too damn…

Engineers building robots usually have a choice between making a fast machine or a flexible one. But now engineers…

In desperate need of a more efficient structure for their tiny solar cells, engineers turned to the world's foremost…

I'm sure this robotic swallowtail butterfly serves a scientific purpose. But whatever contribution it's making to…

When you think of autonomous, unmanned spy vehicles, you probably imagine the telltale shape of a small aircraft…

This mind-bendingly cute thorny devil lizard is one of the most sought-after creatures in the engineering world…