It’s difficult to spy on shy creatures in their natural habitats, whether it be in the deep sea, or in the trees. Now, however, thanks to animatronic drones and robots, people are able to safely ...

Recent DARPA robots include sea-based microdrones, cockroach-style surveillance bots, and even cyborg insects.

BOSTON ” Dominated by home-cleaning gadgets, the consumer robotics market is expanding with the arrival of ‘bots that can spy inside your home when you’re away or arrange virtual meetings of family or ...

Spy In The Wild is a nature show with a premise that, at long last, perfectly balances education with entertainment. The BBC commissions experts to create animatronic animals, places them in real ...

Be careful: Hackers might be watching through your vacuum. Well, they could if you own the Diqee Camera Robotic Vacuum Cleaner, which is made and sold in China. It touts features like an HD 360-degree ...

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‘Spy in the Wild” is about the kind of spying that uncovers only heartwarming secrets, good news, admirable behavior. All of its undercover work is done by animatronic cameras disguised as animals: ...

The US Navy is funding the development of a new super-surveillance system that uses robots to snoop on humans in terrifying detail. It has handed a $1.7 million grant to researchers from Cornell ...

If you thought Watson (the Jeopardy computer) was going to rule our puny human asses alone, now Watson has his minions. The Pentagon has just developed a robotic hummingbird designed for spying called ...

How do you photograph skittish wildlife up close and personal? Design a camera robot that looks just like them. That’s the idea behind Spy in the Wild, a new documentary series on BBC. While the ...

Anyone who remembers the Futurama episode “Birdbot of Ice-Catraz” knows that having a penguin-like robot hang out with penguins can be dicey. But because this is real life (and Bender wasn’t involved) ...

—NATURE’s Favorite Spy Cam Creatures Return, Delving Deeper into the Animal Kingdom to Capture Rarely Seen Behavior— Travel the globe with more than 50 animatronic spy creatures in a new four-part ...