In recent decades, aerial robots especially small UAVs and drones have witnessed
tremendous improvements in terms of their structure, working methodology, flying features …

Nowadays, there is a growing need for flying drones with diverse capabilities for both civilian
and military applications. There is also a significant interest in the development of novel …

Robotic artificial muscles are a subset of artificial muscles that are capable of producing
biologically inspired motions useful for robot systems, ie, large power-to-weight ratios …

We are witnessing the advent of a new era of robots—drones—that can autonomously fly in
natural and man-made environments. These robots, often associated with defence …

Miniature soft robots are mobile devices, which are made of smart materials that can be
actuated by external stimuli to realize their desired functionalities. Here, the key …

Flies are among the most agile flying creatures on Earth. To mimic this aerial prowess in a
similarly sized robot requires tiny, high-efficiency mechanical components that pose …

Despite decades of work on climate change biology, the scientific community remains
uncertain about where and when most species distributions will respond to altered climates …

It was thought that the aerodynamics of flapping flight in birds is fully understood for quite
some time, but recent studies have shown that this is not the case. Bird flight uses …

Fully miniaturized robots (eg, drones), with artificial intelligence (AI)-based visual navigation
capabilities, are extremely challenging drivers of Internet-of-Things edge intelligence …

Designing effective low-level robot controllers often entail platform-specific implementations
that require manual heuristic parameter tuning, significant system knowledge, or long design …