(Nanowerk News) Dash Robotics, founded by UC Berkeley alumni and students, today unveiled a new high performance, low-cost "origami" robot that runs fast on six legs, weighs only half an ounce and can ...

Anyone who has tried to kill a cockroach knows just how difficult they can be to be to capture. Not only can they squeeze through very narrow gaps, but they can also instantly accelerate to a running ...

Dash Robotics, makers of hand-held, bio-inspired robots that are easy and fun for anyone to build, has secured $1.4 million in a round of seed funding led by IronFire Capital. Following the release of ...

- Lighting-fast bio-inspired robots are easy for anyone to build BERKELEY, CALIF. (September 5, 2013) – Dash Robotics today unveiled a new high performance, low-cost "origami" robot that runs fast on ...

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Have you ever tried to catch a running cockroach? They're fast little suckers, and resilient too, which is why scientists at the University of California Berkeley modeled their latest robot after them ...

A startup called Wonder Workshop is teaching kids how to code using Swift. Founded in 2012, Wonder Workshop makes toy robots, called Dash and Dot, that kids can control with programs they create using ...

SUNNYVALE, Calif., April 23, 2015 /PRNewswire/ –Dash Robotics, makers of hand-held, bio-inspired robots that are easy and fun for anyone to build, has secured $1.4 million in a round of seed funding ...