Bio-inspired Robots

Search & Rescue Robots Inspired by Snakes

Robot engineers are always learning from nature to improve their designs. Johns Hopkins University's Terradynamics Lab researchers have built a…

5 years ago

Haru Tabletop Robot Assistant

Meet Haru: an experimental tabletop robot assistant designed to study social robotics. It uses large LCD screen eyes, an LED…

5 years ago

BionicBird MetaFly: Biomimetic RC Toy That Flies Like a Bird

Meet the MetaFly: a biomimetic RC toy that exhibits nature-like flying behavior. It can be indoors and outside easily with…

5 years ago

Designing Bio-inspired Robotic Hooves

Researchers are inspired by nature all the time to improve the design of their robots. This video from Robomechanics Lab…

5 years ago

RoboFly: Robot Insect Can Drift on Water

Meet the RoboFly: an insect-sized robot that can fly and drift on water. It flaps its wing to move in…

5 years ago

Vyommitra Humanoid Robot for Gaganyaan Spaceflight

We have already covered a bunch of robots that can perform tasks in space. Vyommitra is a half-humanoid robot made…

5 years ago

Alter 3 Robot Conducting a Human Orchestra

In the past few years, we have covered plenty of awesome musical robots. Robots are now being used as parts…

5 years ago

PigeonBot: This Robotic Pigeon Flies Like a Real Bird

Robotic birds are nothing new. But not many of them can change their wing shape to fly with more agility.…

5 years ago

Xenobots: Robots Made with Living Cells

You don't always need to use metals to build robots. Scientists from UVM and Tufts have managed to build robots…

5 years ago

DEAnsect: Soft Robotic Insect That Can Survive a Fly Swatter

Robotic insects are nothing new. We have covered a bunch of them here in the past. Researchers at EPFL have…

5 years ago