WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — What can fly like a bird and hover like an insect? Your friendly neighborhood hummingbirds. If drones had this combo, they would be able to maneuver better through collapsed ...

At the first-ever Discovery Day event held last year, educators told Technical.ly that the best way to get students excited about STEM was to show them the robots. In Pittsburgh, one edtech company ...

This tiny, flying robot flaps its wings 30 times per second—just like a real hummingbird—and will one day save lives by searching for survivors in wreckage and spots not easily accessible by humans.

Inspired by moths and hummingbirds, UC researchers design a drone that locks onto light and stays airborne with simple ...

This little remote control robotic hummingbird can fly in any direction or even hover in place. While it looks like a souped-up fishing lure, small robots like this may just be the future of combat.

A robot hummingbird is the military's latest flying spy machine, with a camera affixed to a featherweight 6.5-inch body that flies by flapping its wings. The "Nano Hummingbird" can fly just 11 miles ...

In a quiet corner of the International Space Station, far from the bustle of experiments and Earth communications, three ...