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

A tiny robot fiddler crab is helping environmental scientists better understand the complexities of animal mating rituals and ...

In the new study, a robot crab—nicknamed Wavy Dave—waved its claw on a mudflat teeming with male fiddler crabs. The paper, ...

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

In the animal world, attracting a mate often comes down to a show of skill. Birds sing. Deer fight. Some crabs wave. For one ...

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

Between May and July 2022, Wilde and his team created “Wavy Dave,” an artificial fiddler crab with a robotic claw that could ...

Scientists apparently underestimated the aggression of itty-bitty male fiddler crabs when they deployed a friendly robot ...

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

Researchers test fiddler crab mating strategies by introducing a robot with a waving claw, dubbed “Wavy Dave.” CNN speaks to ...

When scientists deposited “Wavy Dave” the robot crab on a mudflat in Portugal, they hoped to learn more about how males compete for mates by waving their huge claws. But the little machine was ...

A study using a robotic crab has revealed how male fiddler crabs compete for mates. These crustaceans vie for the attention ...