A cockroach diligently cleans his antenna. Photo by Ayako Wada-Katsumata When encountering a two-inch American cockroach, most people quickly skedaddle the other way or raise a foot to stomp the ...

Like a cockroach's own wriggly appendage, the artificial antenna sends signals to a wheeled robot's electronic brain, enabling the machine to scurry along walls, turn corners and avoid obstacles.

Despite inhabiting sewers and cesspools, cockroaches are quite clean — or at least their exteriors are, according to entomologist Coby Schal of North Carolina State University. That's because ...

Like a cockroach's own wriggly appendage, the artificial antenna sends signals to a wheeled robot's electronic brain, enabling the machine to scurry along walls, turn corners and avoid obstacles.

A tiny neuro-controller could provide more precise control of futuristic biobots such as cyborg cockroaches that are already being tested for use in search and rescue missions inside collapsed ...

The researchers removed an antenna from a male German cockroach and attached two electrodes to it. The antenna was then exposed to the flow coming from the low temperature chromatograph loaded ...

Their remote control system consists of two parts: antennae stimulators and another on their rear end. Cockroaches use their antennae to feel their way around the environment.

A robotic cockroach, designed by a research team at Johns Hopkins University, uses a flexible, sensor-laden antenna to send signals to the wheeled robot's ...

Cockroaches Cockroaches are usually reddish or brownish, although the oriental cockroaches (Blatta orientalis) are a lot darker. The main difference between a cockroach and a water bug is the antenna.

John Hopkins University is showing off their newest touch sensor for robots. Its flexible and wand-like antenna consists of six strain gauges that have been molded in urethane, giving it an ...

Borrowing an idea from nature, John Hopkins University in Maryland has designed a sensor which allows a robot to feel its way around. The flexible wand-like device is based on detailed examination of ...

The robotic roach uses a complex antenna to feel its way around obstacles, just as biological cockroaches do. Will Kirk / JHU ...