How small is Northwestern University’s robot crab? It’s sit-on-the-side-of-a-penny small. It’s half a millimeter wide — making it even smaller than a common flea. Researchers behind it have determined ...

If it wasn’t bad enough that robots are going to take over humanity one day, let’s just go ahead and make them smaller before they do. But we can’t just make them smaller, we need to give them ...

Researchers at Northwestern University in Illinois have demonstrated the world's smallest remote-controlled walking robot, at just half a millimeter wide. Such tiny machines can bend, twist, crawl, ...

A leaked video shows Tesla’s Optimus robot falling and making a gesture resembling the removal of a VR headset. The motion has sparked concerns that the robot may still rely on human teleoperation.

While falls are not unusual in robotics development, a specific hand motion has raised questions about the current level of ...

Northwestern Engineering researchers have developed the smallest-ever remote-controlled walking robot — and it comes in the form of a tiny, adorable peekytoe crab. Just a half-millimeter wide, the ...

Spykee is an odd little $300 robot “toy” that’s everything from a webcam to digital music player to VoIP phone and can be controlled via WiFi. Spykee ships with software that allows it to be ...

First, they walked. Then, they saw the light. Now, miniature biological robots have gained a new trick: remote control. The hybrid 'eBiobots' are the first to combine soft materials, living muscle and ...

What walks like a crab, is as small as a flea and can be remote-controlled? The latest gee-whiz wireless gizmo designed by robotics engineers. The walking robot, created to look like a peekytoe crab, ...