We've watched with interest as subsequent developments have allowed RoboBee to fly, swim, hover, perch and lose its tether. Now it's become the first microrobot to achieve controlled flight using ...

The demonstration of the first controlled flight of an insect-sized robot is the culmination of more than a decade’s work, led by researchers at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied ...

While RoboBee's flying technique closely mimics the biomechanics of insect flight, finding a method that would allow the robot to perch on different surfaces required an approach that didn't ...

Harvard University’s RoboBee has became the lightest vehicle to ever achieve sustained untethered flight, not requiring jumping or liftoff.

Several years ago, Harvard University roboticist Robert Wood made headlines when his lab constructed RoboBee, a tiny robot capable of partially untethered flight. Over the years, RoboBee has ...

We've been following the exploits of Harvard's tiny Robobee for a few years now, from its first controlled flight, then learning to swim and perch, and rising out of the water with style. Until ...

Changes to the Robobee -- including an additional pair of wings and improvements to the actuators and transmission ratio -- made the vehicle more efficient and allowed the addition of solar cells and ...

The Robobee X-Wing can fly using only the power it collects from light hitting its solar cells, making it possible to stay in the air indefinitely. Achieving flight at this scale is extremely hard.

Harvard scientists have introduced what may be the cutest flying robots ever: a bio-inspired insect-sized aircraft dubbed RoboBee that pushes flight-worthy craft into their smallest wings yet ...

Now, there’s a hybrid RoboBee that can both fly and swim, a Herculean effort for a microbot that’s just millimetres tall and a thousand times lighter than any previous aerial-to-aquatic robot.

Harvard University’s RoboBee has became the lightest vehicle to ever achieve sustained untethered flight, not requiring jumping or liftoff.

The milestone is described in Nature. To achieve untethered flight, this latest iteration of the Robobee underwent several important changes, including the addition of a second pair of wings.