Eric Mack has been a CNET contributor since 2011. Eric and his family live 100% energy and water independent on his off-grid compound in the New Mexico desert. Eric uses his passion for writing about ...

If you want to walk on water, it helps to have fancy feet. With the help of their feet, the rice grain–sized ripple bugs can make sharp turns in just 50 milliseconds and move up to 120 body lengths ...

Robots can serve pizza, crawl over alien planets, swim like octopuses and jellyfish, cosplay as humans, and even perform surgery. But can they walk on water? Rhagobot isn’t exactly the first thing ...