A spider-like construction robot designed in Australia is edging toward a role that once belonged only in science fiction: ...

Listen, we’re all big fans of science here—but sometimes, science gets it wrong. Case in point: Japanese engineers have created an utterly creepy robot spider that’s also capable of flying around like ...

A team of engineers and plant pathologists are developing a spider-shaped robot as the latest weapon in the war against a devastating crop disease. Curcurbits are a large family of plants that include ...

Walt Disney Imagineers Tony Dohi, left, and Morgan Pope pose with an Mk1 prototype of the Stuntronics robot, an advanced figure capable of flying through the air and performing acrobatic feats. (Jay L ...

Boffins from Rice University in Texas have used a dead spider as an actuator at the end of a robot arm and created the field of "necrobotics" which literally means the dead could rise again as robots.

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 ...

Iyaz Akhtar works tenaciously to make technology work for him so he can live a life of leisure. He's been in the tech sector as a writer, an editor, a producer, and a presenter since 2006. Imagine ...

Fans of deep cut Spider-Man lore just got something seriously cool to add to their shelves. Hot Toys has revealed a new 1/6 scale collectible based on the wonderfully strange and endlessly charming ...

We’ll admit it is a bit of a gimmick, but [Adam Beedle’s] Spider-Bot did make us smile. The little robot can launch a “web” and use it to swing. It is hard to picture, but the video below will make it ...

Who doesn’t love robotic spiders? Today’s biomimetic robot comes in the form of Miles, the quadruped spider robot from [_Robox]. Miles uses twelve servos to control its motion, three on each of its ...