In Northern California, the ground has slipped back into one of its most unnerving habits: a burst of small quakes that seem ...

These things turn on and turn off,” said David Schwartz, a geologist and scientist emeritus with the US Geological Survey.

Miniaturization is progressing rapidly in just any field and the trend towards the creation of ever smaller units is also prevalent in the world of robot technology. In the future, minuscule robots ...

The team explained that the system is a 3D terrestrial, self-reconfigurable robotic swarm made up of compact, dome-shaped ...

Swarm behavior is a phenomenon observed in nature where flocks of birds, schools of fish, and swarms of insects exhibit coordinated movement. Each entity interacts with its surroundings and other ...

Algae bloom, birds flock, and insects swarm. This en masse behavior by individual organisms can provide separate and collective good, such as improving chances of successful mating propagation or ...

Unmanned underwater vehicles mimic nature and collaborate on tasks. Robotics experts are using the swarming behavior of insects and fish as a model for software that will operate the next generation ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Moving in a dense ...