Engineers have harnessed the physics behind the flailing tube men to power a tiny soft “ robot ” capable of walking, hopping, ...

iRonCub has been developed by researchers at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), and it’s been some five years in the making for this Iron Man-like flying robot. The idea behind iRonCub ...

has been working for several years on prototypes of flying humanoid robots. The latest, named iRonCub3, can soar through the air just like Iron Man or Astro Boy. Unlike these two fictional ...

Although other incarnations of the little robot have proven capable of feats such as flying underwater and perching on overhangs, the base model has never been that great at simply landing on flat ...

Tiny flying robots could perform such useful tasks as pollinating crops inside multilevel warehouses, boosting yields while mitigating some of agriculture’s harmful impacts on the environment.