For billions of years, nature has been the world’s master engineer. Natural evolution has created impressive, sometimes implausible creatures. Take, for instance, the water strider. This group of ...

Picture a robot controlled by micromotors so small and light that it suspends itself over water like a bug. With engineers at the University of Virginia, that’s now an achievable reality. With their ...

Researchers have developed a fish-like robot that shows how some species of modern fish are able to walk on land, and could help unravel how early ...