Discover the groundbreaking Festo BionicBee—an innovative micro robot inspired by the natural abilities of bees. This video ...

China has just flown a 16-ton unmanned aircraft built not to drop bombs itself, but to carry and release swarms of smaller drones, turning the sky into a layered, robotic battlespace. The maiden ...

A group of researchers from the Universite Libre de Bruxelles and Instituto Universitario de Lisboa have demonstrated a way for different robots to communicate with one another in real time in order ...

Nature has spent millions of years perfecting teamwork. Bees swarm together in coordinated clouds. Schools of fish shift direction almost instantly. Bats and whales use sound to navigate and ...

Robot swarms are systems composed of many simple robots that coordinate without central control. Soon, they could be radically transformed by artificial intelligence. A new article published in ...

A new AI control system lets MIT’s tiny flying robot move with insect-like agility, boosting its speed by about 450 percent and allowing it to pull off 10 somersaults in 11 seconds. The technology ...

For most of us, a locust swarm sounds like an utter nightmare. For roboticists, it’s inspiration. Nature abounds with creatures that cooperate with a “hive mind.” From bees gathering pollen to schools ...

Researchers’ video of a swarm of microrobots dividing in two under magnetic-field manipulation. (Video: Kijun Yang, et al./Hanyang University) Forget teaching robots to think like humans. A field ...