MIT scientists are designing robotic insects that could one day swarm out ... like assisted pollination.” Insect-sized drones needed considerable improvement on previous designs, the team ...

UC Berkeley's tiny, bee-inspired flying robot weighs 21 mg, hovers, and hits targets using magnetic fields for potential ...

The main application researchers have in mind is for search and rescue. A swarm of drones can explore an unstable or dangerous area, and identify key areas to focus rescue efforts on.

or other useful pollinators while eradicating the tiny little bloodsuckers that are the drone’s target, you need to be able to not only locate bugs, but discriminate mosquitoes from the others.

It's a good bet that Japanese company Zero Tech was unaware of the Harry Potter connection when it named its pocket-sized drone Dobby. While that tiny house elf won us over with his tenacity and ...

(Program not available for streaming.) Drones. These unmanned flying robots–some as large as jumbo jets, others as small as birds–do things straight out of science fiction. Much of what it ...

But then the small drones started to swarm. They targeted the weakest points of the armored Bradley with a deadly precision that mortar fire doesn’t possess. One of the explosive drones struck ...