Rats and mice can scurry through dark, tight spaces with ease—in caves, underground burrows, buildings or sewers. Their ...

BALTIMORE, Md. – In looking for creative inspiration, engineering student Qiyuan Fu finds it in a box, with an interesting occupant. Inside: a real, live snake. “We can definitely learn something from ...

If you put a robot vacuum in a living room, it will meticulously map the baseboards. Move a single armchair, however, and the machine may spin in confused circles, trapped by its own digital blueprint ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Over 390 million years ago, the ancestors of modern land ...

Bio-inspired underwater robots are engineered to replicate the morphology, movements, and behaviors of aquatic animals, which have evolved amazingly underwater mobility. This interdisciplinary field ...