The small hopping insect Issus coleoptratus uses toothed ... All images courtesy of Malcom Burrows To the best of our knowledge, the mechanical gear—evenly-sized teeth cut into two different ...

MAINE — As nonnative insects continue to surge in numbers, i-Tree pest predictor could predict the next species to become a pest before it arrives in Maine. University of Maine’s Angela Mech ...

Have you ever wanted to fly a tiny insect mech from leaf to leaf, blow bugs away, and then use your collected resources to give said mech a sick paint job? What do you mean “it’s never crossed ...

a plant hopping insect the size of a flea, has “hind-leg joints with curved cog-like strips of opposing ‘teeth’ that intermesh, rotating like mechanical gears to synchronize the animal’s ...

MAINE — As nonnative insects continue to surge in numbers, i-Tree pest predictor could predict the next species to become a pest before it arrives in Maine. University of Maine’s Angela Mech ...

To help make this idea a reality, MIT researchers are developing robotic insects that could someday swarm out of mechanical ...

"For the first time we were able to directly show that the exoskeleton of insects is able to react to mechanical load," said Dr. Karen Stamm, who performed the study at Bionik-Innovations-Center ...

The small hopping insect Issus coleoptratus uses toothed ... All images courtesy of Malcom Burrows To the best of our knowledge, the mechanical gear—evenly-sized teeth cut into two different ...