Autonomous, living microrobots that seek and destroy cancer are not as futuristic as one might imagine, thanks to a fusion of robotics and synthetic biology.

This fish-inspired robot swims at greater speeds than previous ones.

See a tiny, jellyfish-like robot swim, burrow, and carry beads.

Developers made an insect-like robot with two pairs of wings.

Scientists create a soft-bodied robotic fish that pumps synthetic blood and swims on its own.

The Carnegie Mellon computational biologist thinks machine learning algorithms can direct high-throughput experiments to solve the field’s unanswered questions.

Robots integrated into groups of zebrafish and of one-day-old honey bees allow the two species to influence each other’s behavior.

From 500-million-year-old fat to a newly discovered virus, here are some stunners from The Scientist in 2018.

A bioinspired robot helps researchers study insect flight.