When the Armatron first came out, in 1981, robotics engineers started contacting Watanabe. “I wasn’t so much hearing from ...

The bumblebee-inspired robot is less than a centimeter wide and can hover, change direction, and hit small targets. Like a bumblebee moving from flower to flower, a new insect-inspired flying robot ...

“We have to travel a long way to get here, which means we have to pack our robot all up in, like, a crate and send it multiple weeks before the actual competition,” said Ashley Nestlerode, driver for ...