Harvard's RoboBee will one day conduct artificial pollination and survey disaster zones, but first it has to stop crash ...

If you see a crane fly this spring (or even hundreds), don't freak out. Although they resemble mosquitos, they're just out ...

Inspired by this natural design, the engineers outfitted the RoboBee with its own set of long, double-jointed legs. These new ...

A recently created RoboBee is now outfitted with its most reliable landing gear to date, inspired by one of nature's most graceful landers: the crane fly. The team has given their flying robot a set ...

Harvard’s tiny flying robot, known as the RoboBee, has just gotten a major upgrade that makes landing much safer and smoother. Inspired by the long legs of crane flies, engineers have given the robot ...

Even if you've built one of the world's most advanced insect-inspired micro air vehicles (MAVs), it ultimately won't be that useful if it can't stick a good landing. That's why scientists at Harvard ...

With large bodies and long, spindly legs, they look like monstrous ... “I think of them as the robot vacuums of the insect world,” he said. “They fly around until they hit something and ...

Harvards RoboBee achieves stable landing technique for crop pollination Engineers develop flying robots to aid in agricultural processes and adapt techniques from nature for efficient operations ...

Whether you call them crane flies or "skeeter" hawks, the spindly-legged flying insect is an annoyance to ... from the larval stage at over 2 inches long with a 3-inch wingspan.