This group of 'cockroaches' comes from the College of Engineering at West Lake University, cultivated in the lab of Chair ...

It is thrown into the grass, either crawling forward or rotating and jumping; it is thrown into the water, quickly adjusting its posture, transforming into a fish; that day, it fell from the top of a ...

The Compressible Robot with Articulated Mechanisms, also known as CRAM, has a trick: It can squeeze into some really tight spaces. Researchers at the University of California at Berkeley created the ...

Things that scurry are hard to predict. They're nervous and quick — and no one likes a small, nervous, quick thing. But one robot seems to be going against the grain. It's a cockroach-inspired machine ...

Note: you will be killed by the innocent-looking robot pictured above. Using a combination of the stable low profile of a cockroach and the terrain-adapting spine legs of a spider, this ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - People use a lot of words to describe the reviled cockroach: disgusting, ugly, sneaky and repulsive, to name a few. But it may be time to add a surprising new one: inspirational ...