Scientists built ethanol-powered leaf-like robots that move quietly on water, gather data, and blend with nature, offering a ...

Researchers at EPFL’s School of Engineering, in collaboration with the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, have created a small swimming robot that moves through water with breathtaking ...

Although we've seen a number of different robotic water striders over the years, scientists are still finding clever new aspects of the insects to replicate. Recently, for instance, researchers ...

A Korean research team has created a light-driven artificial muscle that functions independently underwater, advancing the future of soft robotics. The system, developed by the Korea Research ...

The boat-shaped robot takes advantage of the same phenomenon – the Marangoni effect – used by some aquatic insects to propel themselves across the surface of water. A chemical reaction within a tiny ...

Burlington, Ont., student Evan Budz hopes his award-winning bionic turtle invention will help make underwater ecosystems ...

When it comes to innovation, nature often gets there first. For millions of years, plants and animals have been adapting, optimizing, and surviving through elegant solutions to life’s toughest ...

Wading in the creek behind University of Delaware’s The College School, elementary students laughed and cheered as they met a challenge their teacher Laurie Drumm posed only a few months prior: build ...