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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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