The top 7 must-read stories from Interesting Engineering cover humanoids that box, lasers to kill mosquitoes, and even an ...

The year 2025 has delivered major innovations, from AI insect-tracking cameras and smart lipstick to neural earbuds and coffee machines that extract water from air.

In a defense lab in Germany, a small startup is wiring live cockroaches with AI-guided backpacks and turning them into steerable scouts that can slip through cracks no drone or soldier could reach.

Three months ago, my history club had a talk on the history and future of robots. The speaker, who has a Ph.D. in artificial intelligence, predicted that five years from now, every home would have one ...

Autonomous flight at insect scale has long been a challenge in robotics. Existing microrobots can hover or move along ...

Researchers at MIT have developed a flying robot that can fly as fast as a bumblebee and could, someday, help with search-and-rescue missions.

German startup SWARM Biotactics is turning Madagascar hissing cockroaches into high-tech spies. By attaching 15-gram ...

A mosquito proboscis repurposed as a 3-D printing nozzle can print filaments around 20 micrometers wide, half the width of a ...

In its decades-long quest to mimic life, robotics has never had much trouble duplicating its brute force. Machines have long ...

CEO Stefan Wilhelm told CBS the choice of insect was deliberate. The Madagascar hissing cockroach is large enough to carry small payloads, resilient under extreme conditions, ...

An insect-scale robot from MIT performs agile flight maneuvers using a neural-network controller, surpassing previous ...