Festo, inventor of sophisticated and elegant robotic birds, as well as robot jellyfish and penguins, has done it again. The company's latest robotic achievement is a dragonfly, the BionicOpter, which ...

Some spy stories sound made up until you realize they were very real. The CIA’s robotic dragonfly was one of those ideas, and it says a lot about how far intelligence agencies were willing to go ...

A robot inspired by one of nature’s most agile flying insects — the dragonfly — has darted out of the research lab and is taking dead aim at the consumer market. Imagine a personal robot that hovers ...