Berkeley, California - US-based researchers have created a robot that can use its body shape to move through a densely cluttered environment. The team from the University of California, Berkeley based ...

From fields of grass to cracks in the wall, there's almost nowhere you won't find cockroaches. Now, scientists have created a roach-inspired robot with a rounded shell, which was able to clamber ...

Being one of the toughest and fastest insects in the world, the American cockroach is often considered a pest, and many people pay big bucks just to keep them out of their homes. But don't stomp on ...

The little cockroach, among nature’s most gross and reviled creatures, could soon be saving lives. Well, a cockroach-inspired robot, that is.

Tiny robots programmed to act like roaches were able to blend into cockroach society, according to researchers studying the collective behaviour of insects. Cockroaches tend to self-organize into ...

WASHINGTON - People use a lot of words to describe the reviled cockroach: disgusting, ugly, sneaky and repulsive, to name a few. But it may be time to add a surprising new one: inspirational.

SINGAPORE — Scientists in Singapore have industrialised the production of remote-controlled cyborg cockroaches that one day could form a tiny army suitable for disaster search missions. Last month, ...

When buildings collapse in future disasters, the hero helping rescue trapped people may be a robotic cockroach. Repulsive as they may be, roaches have the remarkable ability to squish their bodies ...

Suddenly the cockroach disappeared from the field of vision when I thought that it was pursuing cockroaches with newspapers and insecticide hands at last ... but it seems that the mechanism has been ...

The little cockroach, among nature’s most gross and reviled creatures, could soon be saving lives. Well, a cockroach-inspired robot, that is.