Robot arms and grippers do important work every hour of every day. They’re used in production lines around the world, toiling virtually ceaselessly outside of their designated maintenance windows.

Consumer robotics company Vincross has introduced a new bot to the world, and people with entomophobia might want to steer clear of it. HEXA is a small, six-legged robot that resembles a crab or a ...

Robotic ‘spiders’ could be the key to building large-scale structures in space, according to ESA’s Advanced Concepts Team. The tiny mechanical spiders would inch their way across large nets of fabric ...

The need for airship repairs can quickly become problematic for airline companies. A significant amount of time and resources are spent working on tedious repair tasks. Further, with even the tiniest ...

A tiny spider inspired soft robot designed at the University of Macau can roll, climb, and even move upside down inside the digestive tract. Guided by magnetic fields and real time imaging, it may one ...

Researchers have developed an integrated fabrication process that for the very first time enables the design of soft robots on the millimeter scale with micrometer-scale features. To demonstrate the ...

Nothing in particular about Festo, a Germany-based international corporation specializing in industrial robotics, suggests that the company has a mandate to design spider robots. Yet the company is ...

Aerospace engineering company Lockheed Martin Corp has created a small, spider-like robot that is designed to track down and repair leaks in the company’s massive Hybrid Airships. Lockheed Martin’s ...