Among other things, the mantis shrimp is known for having the fastest punch of any animal. Harvard scientists have now built a mechanism that simulates that punch, and they believe that it could lead ...

Mantis shrimp pack the strongest punch of any creature in the animal kingdom. Their club-like appendages accelerate faster than a bullet out of a gun and just one strike can knock the arm off a crab ...

Veldan, a humanoid praying robot which was built by Iranian schoolteacher Akbar Rezaie, performs morning prayer in front of Alborz elementary school girls Feb. 24 in the city of Varamin, south of the ...

A surprising amount of technology is inspired by animals. Raptors packing Sidewinder missiles shoot down the occasional suspicious balloon. Scientists deploy robotic sloths to collect vital ecological ...