“I’ll never forget the moment those three robots first swam together in the pool – they moved in perfect formation, just as we’d hoped,” recalls Alex Sheridan. As project manager for Swarm – one of 12 ...

Subsurface oceans on gas giant moons are some of the most promising places to look for life beyond Earth. NASA has now awarded funding for a project to develop a swarm of small swimming robots that ...

In a remarkable advancement in the field of robotics, scientists and engineers have recently unveiled a revolutionary swarm of robots capable of mimicking the fluid properties of water while also ...

Unmanned underwater vehicles mimic nature and collaborate on tasks. Robotics experts are using the swarming behavior of insects and fish as a model for software that will operate the next generation ...

Vibrating tiny robots could revolutionize research. Individual robots can work collectively as swarms to create major advances in everything from construction to surveillance, but microrobots’ small ...

In one part of a laboratory in Bristol, UK, scientists are designing a nanoparticle swarm that will be able to target and kill tumour cells intelligently. Interactions between the tiny but simple ...