The result: A robot that can jump 14.2 centimeters on water – not bad for a bot with 5-centimeter legs. “The result is strikingly similar to the jumping of the real water strider,” Dominic ...

The water department offers a rebate for rainwater harvesters. A resident who buys a 1,000-gallon tank will get a check for $1,000. “I think the potential is huge,” says James MacAdam of the ...

The water-walking robot is powered by a motor worn on its "body," which is wired to an external control board. Ten "walking" legs support the robot, and the two other legs are connected to motors ...

In what has to be one of the most wasteful ways to traverse stairs, Harvard's Self-organizing Systems Research Group has designed a robot that builds its ...

Why clean your rain gutters when you can put a robot on the roof to do the job for you? iRobot, based in Bedford, Mass., recently came out with the Looj 330 Gutter Cleaning Robot priced at $100 ...

Rain barrels are just the start. With the right catchment system, you can use rain to water your whole yard, wash the car and even flush the toilet.

To use storm-water runoff from a roof to help irrigate a rain garden, the roof’s downspout was connected to an underground pipe that directed water toward the garden.

It’s a water-snake robot developed by a group of Swiss researchers at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. The robot was originally developed to help biologists understand the ...