The newest generation of microrobots is so small that a single unit can perch on the ridge of a fingerprint and practically vanish from sight. Built at a scale that rivals grains of salt and human ...

In the ever-evolving world of technology, innovation is the name of the game. Recent advances have led to the development ...

The world's smallest fully programmable, autonomous robots have debuted at the University of Pennsylvania, sporting a brain developed at the University of Michigan. These microscopic swimming machines ...

Robots have steadily become smaller, cheaper, and more capable—but until now, true autonomy stopped at around the millimeter scale. Below that threshold, conventional designs fail. Tiny motors break ...

For decades, microscopic robots lived mostly in our imagination. Movies like "Fantastic Voyage" convinced us that tiny machines would one day cruise through the human body, fixing problems from the ...

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We ...

Mechanical engineers at Duke University have developed solid building blocks whose mechanical properties can ...

Robots are usually built from materials with fixed properties. Once a robot is assembled, its stiffness, flexibility and ...

Mechanical engineers at Duke University have demonstrated a proof-of-concept method for programming mechanical properties ...

After spending decades steeped in science fiction, I wouldn't immediately associate the words "living" and "robot," and I doubt a lot of you would either. We can't say the same about researchers at ...

Focus on One Area: Robotics is broad. You could focus on programming first, then move to electronics, or vice versa. Trying ...