The robots are powered by tiny microcomputers developed by David Blaauw and Dennis Sylvester, engineers at the University of ...

Scientists have created the world's smallest programmable robots. These microscopic machines swim in liquids and can sense ...

Each robot costs only a single penny to manufacture. The robots could help advance everything from nanotechnology ...

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and University of Michigan have created the world’s smallest fully programmable ...

Together, the machines represent a long-awaited breakthrough in microscale robotics, a field that has struggled for decades to combine independent motion, sensing, and computing at extremely small ...

Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan have unveiled the world’s smallest fully ...

The robots are both powered and programmed by light pulses, and each has their own unique identifier for individualized ...

The swimming microbots can autonomously sense and navigate their surroundings, using temperature detection to monitor cell ...

Researchers have unveiled the world’s smallest fully programmable, autonomous robots, sporting a “brain”. The microscopic ...

Microscale swimming bots take in sensory information, process it and carry out tasks, opening new possibilities in ...

Robots small enough to travel autonomously through the human body to repair damaged sites may seem the stuff of science ...

1. Joints - The Foundation of Movement Joints are the moving links in a robotic arm. They let the arm bend, rotate, or change ...