Category: insect

“Many people perhaps think that insects are nasty bugs, but we can learn a lot from them as they use relatively simple solutions to fairly complex problems”, says vision researcher Emily Baird.

How scary insects become helpful robots

The only limit to what robots can do is our imagination. But in order to make it real, we need knowledge and inspiration from many different areas. What do we need to know, for instance, in order to design a smart robot that can help in emergencies or perform heavy...