Inspired by the velvet worm, the robot ejects sticky secretions. The magnetically adhesive, untethered robot also removed a tumor from a mouse leg, showcasing its potential for surgical interventions.

Although the robot functions differently from how a worm would maneuver, it surely looks like one. SAW is an ongoing project developed by a team from Ben-Gurion University of Negev. Team members ...

GE Research GE is testing a worm-like robot that can dig holes It's a self-propelling, extremely flexible, highly steerable robot, according to Deepak Trivedi, a mechanical engineer at GE Research.

If you want to get a mini robot moving, maybe you should teach it to do the worm. Neither the Gizmodo article nor the abstract of [David Zarrouk]’s paper gives too many details on the ...

Although the robot functions differently from how a worm would maneuver, it surely looks like one. SAW is an ongoing project developed by a team from Ben-Gurion University of Negev. Team members ...

Scientists have created a robot that "thinks" and acts like a worm after inserting software modeled on the neural connections in a worm's brain inside a Lego robot. WSJ's Monika Auger reports.