Rhagobot isn’t exactly the first thing that comes to mind at the mention of a robot. Inspired by Rhagovelia water striders, ...

Creation of water-walking robot inspired by water striders Ko Je-sung, a professor of Ajou University, shows a miniature ...

Although we've seen a number of different robotic water striders over the years, scientists are still finding clever new ...

Rhagovelias are a unique type of water strider. These tiny, millimeter-sized insects use special fan-like structures on their ...

Ripple bugs’ nimble movements on the surface of water inspired a robot with automatically unfurling fans on its feet.

Ripple bugs’ fan-like legs inspired engineers to build the Rhagobot, a tiny robot with self-morphing fans. By mimicking these ...

Modeled after a mini-bug and a water strider, the two bots respectively weigh in at eight and 55 milligrams, and may mark the “smallest, lightest, and fastest fully functional” micro-robots in ...

WAYZATA, Minn. — Finding and solving water quality problems in the Land of 10,000 Lakes may soon have a new, lower-cost helper — an aquatic robot — that has been designed by and is ...

For all their technological brilliance, from navigating distant planets to performing complex surgery, robots still struggle ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A giant six-foot long robot swam through one of Louisville's main water pipes Thursday morning. Crews placed the free-swimming robot called PipeDiver inside a five-foot water ...

The OceanOneK is designed to explore up to 1 kilometer below the surface of the water, but even at shallow depths, swimming alongside this robot is impressive.