In the absence of a living specimen, scientists say, an ambling, flying, swimming, or slithering automaton is the next best ...

This means that several holes can be drilled close together. With its drilling head, the robot digs through different substrates, ranging from clayey soil to granite rock. The maximum drilling ...

Once this process is complete, the trapped workers on the opposite side of the rubble can safely crawl out ... the endoscopic camera, robots, and heavy-duty drilling machines, reflects the ...

Or get robots to do the hard work for us. Borobotics, a startup from Switzerland, has developed an autonomous drilling machine — dubbed the “world’s most powerful worm” — that promises ...

The end goal is to put the nitrate sensor, along with a camera and a waterflow sensor, onto a robot that can crawl through an entire tile drainage system and store the information for farmers.