A fleet of balloon robots has been launched to capture high-resolution aerial images of the US. Near Space Labs, a US-based startup, aims to use these stratospheric robots to monitor and assess ...

Teens competed at Oak Ridge Associated Universities with robots programmed to "seek and destroy" balloons. The robots rolled toward the balloons and popped them using devices that stuck out either out ...

Onlookers at a tech event watched BALLU, a bipedal balloon robot, walk across the room. Its inventor says the robot "can literally walk on water and walk on a tight rope” and cannot fall down.

Mars gets a lot of attention from earthlings these days, but recently Venus is coming under the spotlight, with NASA, its European counterpart ESA, and New Zealand spaceflight company Rocket Lab all ...

One small step for man, and one giant leap for robot kind! Meet BALU, the walkin', hoppin' stumblin' balloon. The tech event took place in Long Beach, California.

If scuba divers use inflatable BCDs (buoyancy control devices), why don't underwater robots? Well, an experimental new one does, and the technology is said to be much more energy-efficient than ...