Shlomi Mir's wind-powered, data-collecting Tumbleweed could help map treacherous desert terrain. Credit: Shlomi Mir When the Sons of the Pioneers crooned about “drifting along with the tumbling ...

Israeli scientists have come up with a practical solution for collecting information in the desert. Inspired by elements of the ecosystem, they have created robotic tumbleweeds. They think the robots ...

Israeli industrial designer Shlomi Mir has created a tumbleweed-inspired robot that uses wind power to study desertification and help scientists better understand the phenomenon. The round robot uses ...

Imagine you’re on the edge of the Sahara Desert, trying to research the problem of desertification–the spread of new deserts onto farmland and into communities. You need data, but you’re facing ...

Robots have a hard time walking. They’re getting better! But we’re a ways away from having a robot that you can send on an excursion through a dune-covered desert. That’s why, when he wanted to design ...