Bee-inspired drone navigation could change how tiny robots move through greenhouses, warehouses and disaster zones. By ...

Honeybees are among the widely studied insects, due to their sophisticated, hierarchical social organization and their ...

A 56-gram drone lifts off from a patch of grass at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, loops through a short ...

Lab-grown organs are a long-time 'holy grail' of organ engineering that has yet to be achieved, but new research has brought that goal a big step closer to reality using a new 3D-printing method ...

AI researchers are now looking at bees and other insects to help them design machines and robots that can make better ...

While every bumble bee colony has a queen, the process for becoming that queen bee may be a bit more democratic than ...

Conventional robots navigate much like humans do, relying on detailed maps of the area they are in to get around. This allows the robot to maintain an accurate estimate of its own location, but comes ...

For decades, researchers have known that homing pigeons can return to their loft from ...

The term for unmanned aerial drones in English originally means a male bee. It comes from the fact that the sound of propellers resembles the buzzing of bees in flight. Now drones are becoming more ...

The soft ground of the dead in upstate New York is buzzing with swarms of the living—the largest group of ground-nesting bees ever recorded worldwide. “It’s a massive aggregation of bee nests,” says ...

Every generation looks on the next and laments that it has lost something good. It’s a perk of aging. I recently noticed a loss that surprised me: Classic sports movies don’t motivate my children as ...