Could a robot smaller than a microorganism actually think on its own? Well, scientists from the University of Pennsylvania ...

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

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

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

The device advances medicine toward a future that might see tiny robots sent into the body to rewire damaged nerves, deliver ...

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

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

The tiny, microscopic robot packs an onboard computer, solar cells, and propulsion system, and is capable of sensing its ...

A team of researchers at Cornell University has developed the world’s smallest walking robot. Designed to interact with visible light, the robot moves independently despite its tiny size. The team ...

Powered by light and guided by ultra-low-energy computing, the robots show what autonomy looks like at the microscale.

In a lab experiment that sounds closer to science fiction than engineering, researchers have unveiled what they describe as ...