The world’s smallest fully programmable, autonomous robots have debuted at the University of Pennsylvania, sporting a brain ...

Learn more about these tiny robots that can alter their surroundings and monitor our health.

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

Each of the four tool holders can use vacuum cups or grippers mounted on individual linear actuators, which can be programmed for as many as 28 separate locations. The programmable EOAT will save the ...