Berkeley, California - US-based researchers have created a robot that can use its body shape to move through a densely cluttered environment. The team from the University of California, Berkeley based ...

A scuttling robot cockroach has been developed that mimics the insect's creepy ability to squeeze through the narrowest gaps. Just like a real 'roach, the palm-sized mechanised bug can keep crawling ...

The little cockroach, among nature’s most gross and reviled creatures, could soon be saving lives. Well, a cockroach-inspired robot, that is.

From fields of grass to cracks in the wall, there's almost nowhere you won't find cockroaches. Now, scientists have created a roach-inspired robot with a rounded shell, which was able to clamber ...

Three cockroaches squeeze though a 3mm crevice under a room door at different stages of traversal, in this undated handout photo courtesy of PolyPEDAL Lab, UC Berkeley. REUTERS/Tom Libby, Kaushik ...

Robots need to think like cockroaches if they want to walk up and down stairs, an international conference will hear this week. Neuroscientist Professor Roy Ritzmann and robot researcher Professor ...

When buildings collapse in future disasters, the hero helping rescue trapped people may be a robotic cockroach. Repulsive as they may be, roaches have the remarkable ability to squish their bodies ...

Borrowing an idea from nature, John Hopkins University in Maryland has designed a sensor which allows a robot to feel its way around. The flexible wand-like device is based on detailed examination of ...

The little cockroach, among nature’s most gross and reviled creatures, could soon be saving lives. Well, a cockroach-inspired robot, that is. Raveena Aulakh was a former Toronto Star reporter.

WASHINGTON - 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.