Armed with a 3D-printed crustacean chassis and an ego the size of its oversized claw, Wavy Dave strutted onto the mudflats of ...

Between May and July 2022, Wilde and his team created “Wavy Dave,” an artificial fiddler crab with a robotic claw that could wave back and forth. It was placed in the Ria Formosa Natural Park in the ...

Using a 3D robotic crab, researchers found male fiddler crabs adjust their courtship signals based on the size and behavior of nearby rivals.

The crabs, found in Portugal, were shown waving their claws even when not in front of the robot. FBI fires three senior officials, including former acting head ...

The robot fiddler crab was placed in an area where real male crabs could see and interact with the robot.

Blue whale songs dropped by 40% during and after a major marine heat wave. Scientists say the decline is tied to food loss ...

Anyone who ever met Wavy Dave and lived to tell the tale—which is, in point of fact, everyone who has ever met Wavy Dave—would tell you about his claw. It was big, that’s for certain, but this was not ...

Male fiddler crabs have one oversized claw, which they use to attract females by standing outside their burrow and waving.

Wavy Dave the robot crustacean has been showing scientists how male fiddler crabs respond when they see a fellow crab waving.

The male fiddler crabs use their one oversized claw to attract females, waving it with a frantic energy outside their burrows ...

A robot crab called “Wavy Dave” has helped scientists learn about crab mating behaviours. Male fiddler crabs have one ...

Researchers have built a robot crab that can compete in claw-waving displays with real fiddler crabs, but "Wavy Dave" doesn't ...