Scientists have long puzzled over why some dinosaurs had feathers and wings long before they evolved the ability of flight. Experiments with a robot dinosaur may now have revealed the answer – they ...

Nasa has unveiled a plan to unleash swarms of cellphone-sized robots to hunt for alien life on other planets. The US space agency developed the Sensing With Independent Micro-Swimmers (SWIM) concept ...

An intriguing concept for searching for life beyond Earth has been proposed by a robotics mechanical engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California. It's called SWIM, and it ...

Robotic fish, developed by a team of European scientists from universities across the continent, today were introduced into their (un)natural habitat, at the northern Spanish port Gijon. The Shoal ...

Army ants use their bodies to build bridges. Robots could soon take a cue from the tiny insect’s ability to collaborate. By Andrew Paul Published Nov 22, 2023 1:00 PM EST Get the Popular Science daily ...