In the future, farmers could grow fruits and vegetables in multilevel warehouses with the help of more efficient methods for ...

Pollinator populations, like bees and butterflies, are collapsing all around the world. This is troubling because, in ...

CAMBRIDGE, MA — With a more efficient method for artificial pollination, farmers in the future could grow fruits and vegetables inside multilevel warehouses, boosting yields while mitigating some of ...

A tiny micro-robotic insect wing hangs off the front of a circuit board. The idea of being a “fly on the wall” in an enemy headquarters has been a goal of intelligence agencies for as long as there ...

Scientists designed microrobots that use sound to swarm, adapt, and heal themselves — working together like a living organism ...

President Trump signed an executive order to hit pause on a law banning TikTok and to provide a liability shield to business partners of the popular video app. According to the order, the law will be ...

(Nanowerk News) This new prototype robotic system automates the attachment of miniature electronic backpacks on the back of Madagascar hissing cockroaches, turning them into insect-hybrid robots. This ...

Sean Humbert is unlocking the biological secrets of the common housefly to make major advances in robotics and uncrewed aerial systems (UAS). A professor in the Paul M. Rady Department of Mechanical ...

Four-year-old Jake Stainbrook said grasshoppers are his favorite insects because he likes to catch them. “But I couldn’t catch that one!” Jake pointed to a grasshopper the size of a Volkswagen that ...