Once inside vertically confined spaces, cockroaches still locomoted rapidly at twenty body lengths ... Cockroach exoskeletons provided inspiration for a soft, legged search-and-rescue robot that may ...

In recent years, autonomous (cordless) robots have been put to practical use in a range of industrial sectors, disaster sites, medical fields and extreme environments or confined spaces where ...

MIT Lincoln Laboratory and the University of Notre Dame have developed a vine-like robot to aid disaster response. The Soft ...

In recent years, autonomous (cordless) robots have been put to practical use in a range of industrial sectors, disaster sites ...

At 30% smaller than the original Hytron, this compact model is specifically designed to address the unique challenges of urban environments where space is at a premium. [Images: Two Hytron robots ...