Earlier this year, we heard about some tiny robots that used a bio-inspired mechanism to jump high into the air. The makers of those devices have now tweaked the design, creating bots that jump very ...

As our knowledge about the celestial bodies that surround us deepens, we're at times surprised to find that life may exist in the most unlikely of places. Like, say, on one of the some 290 traditional ...

A 301 mg soft robot jumps continuously under constant light without batteries or electronics, using snap-through buckling and self-shadowing to create an autonomous feedback loop.

Daniel Zhou Hao receives funding from UK Space Agency, European Space Agency, and Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) UK. But it’s the ability to incorporate artificial ...