Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tiny robots inspired by insects could soon glide across water, scouting flooded areas, monitoring pollutants, or collecting ...

Kaushik Jayaram envisions a day when swarms of tiny robots, some weighing no more than a paperclip, will crawl through airplanes or into buildings after an earthquake—searching for survivors or ...

An orange wheel rolls across concrete and suddenly jumps, as if it decided to defy gravity on its own. Nearby, a robot undulates through water like a fish. Another twists forward inside a narrow pipe.