Robot Insects

Photo from Harvard Microrobotics Lab

Robotic Insects

Insects have come up with many interesting solutions for the problems that future robots will have to deal with like cooperation, specialized movement and adapting to changing environments. Researchers creating advanced robots are incorporating examples found in nature into their designs.

Flying Insect Robots
Robot Ant
MIT Robot Ants
LEGO Robot Ant
Swarmbots
Robot Bee
Robot Cricket
Cricket Lab
Micro-Cricket Series Robots
Cockroach Controlled Mobile Robot
Cockroach robot needs a brain
Giant cockroach robot
Cockroach-Like Robot
Remote-control roach
Cockroach inspired robot
Tiny robot replicates grasshopper's long leaps

Robot Insect Resources

Researchers Create Robot Driven by Moth's Brain
Audio Clip: Ron Fearing, Micromechanical Flying Insect project

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