Engineers at Cornell have developed a prototype for a snail-inspired robot designed to clean microplastics from oceans, seas, and lakes. The robot's design is based on a Hawaiian apple snail — a ...

The result was a robot that looks like a snail, with a metal shell and a track that allows it to move around. In action, it resembles a WWI-era tank. But what sets the snail-like robot apart is ...

While not quite the same idea but in a similar vein, [Aaron Francis] shared an experience of creating handwriting robots to write thousands of letters. Why did [Aaron] need to write thousands of ...