A new bacteria-inspired robot uses 12 spinning arms to move around the same way bacteria does and scientists want to make it ...

Over the past several decades, underwater robots have become very important ... They used the same type of actuator attached to a rigid arm to build a soft-type gripper for use in retrieving ...

An underwater robot can delicately propel itself in any direction with its 12 flexible arms, inspired by the flagella of bacteria. Its creators claim it can carry out underwater inspections ...

Researchers at EPFL’s School of Engineering, in collaboration with the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, have ...

"By mimicking the manta ray's fluid silhouette, we've solved buoyancy and stability issues that plague humanoid underwater robots," said Fan Dixia, 35, the project's principal investigator.

A SHAPESHIFTING robot submarine has reached Earth's deepest point - 36,000ft underwater - in search of deep-sea "aliens". The tiny Chinese drone survived a mission to the bottom of the Mariana ...