Ko Je-sung, a professor of Ajou University, shows a miniature robot called Rhagobot, modeled after the movement of Rhagovelia, a genus of water strider insects, during a press conference at the ...

Water striders live on the water surface and their leg length ranges from several to over 100 millimeters (Fig. 1,2). It is well known that they use their long hydrophobic legs and support their ...

Water striders are fascinating to watch, as they scoot across the water while supported by surface tension. Scientists have now built a tiny robotic version of the insect, which utilizes a ...

Carnegie Mellon’s NanoRobotics Lab has created a robot prototype so lightweight that it doesn’t break the surface tension of water, enabling it to stand and manuever on top of it. Stand on the water, ...

Although we've seen a number of different robotic water striders over the years, scientists are still finding clever new aspects of the insects to replicate. Recently, for instance, researchers ...

To figure out exactly how insects called water striders walk on water, researchers at MIT (where else?) have created a robotic insect called the Robostrider. Read Get the best tech, science, and ...

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Media coverage can often be the push that helps research make a splash. Well, this week’s Newscripts is a little late to that particular party. Andrew Dickerson’s research into what happens to water ...

Access to hitherto unexploited ecological opportunities is associated with phenotypic evolution and often results in significant lineage diversification. Yet our understanding of the mechanisms ...