Researchers have succeeded in developing the smallest fully autonomous robot in history. It measures less than 1 millimeter and can swim underwater for months powered only by light.

Massive manta rays and other pelagic ray species tend to hover near the ocean surface using a flapping motion. Benthic rays, ...

Researchers in China have unveiled a soft humanoid robot that can shapeshift, float, swim, ...

Using robotic fins, researchers at the University of California, Riverside have learned how stingrays are able to swim with ...

Scientists have built microscopic, light-powered robots that can think, swim, and operate independently at the scale of ...

A Korean research team has created a light-driven artificial muscle that functions independently underwater, advancing the future of soft robotics. The system, developed by the Korea Research ...

Using robotic fins, researchers at the University of California, Riverside, have learned how stingrays ...

The boat-shaped robot takes advantage of the same phenomenon – the Marangoni effect – used by some aquatic insects to propel themselves across the surface of water. A chemical reaction within a tiny ...

This review article, authored by Dr. Weidong Zhang’s team from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, was recently published in the journal Robot Learning. Focusing on the increasingly prominent topic of ...