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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

A tiny robot fiddler crab is helping environmental scientists better understand the complexities of animal mating rituals and rivalries. And while their initial findings published August 5 in ...

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