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Tiny particles are opening big doors for medicine, materials science, and even environmental cleanup. Across the world, scientists are racing to understand how these microscopic swimmers behave, ...

Swiss scientists have gone a step better than that, with li'l robots that can be consumed by fish when their job is done. We've already seen a number of experimental "microbots" that can be equipped ...

Scientists built ethanol-powered leaf-like robots that move quietly on water, gather data, and blend with nature, offering a new path for sustainable aquatic tech. (Nanowerk News) Tiny robots that ...

Innovations in solar energy. Image by © Tim Sandle (Barbican, London). Innovations in solar energy. Image by © Tim Sandle (Barbican, London). Scientists have called ...

An AI-enabled robot can carry on such processes by autonomously handling delivery, restocking and routing within set ...

Google DeepMind is launching two new AI models designed to help robots “perform a wider range of real-world tasks than ever before.” The first, called Gemini Robotics, is a vision-language-action ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics are undoubtedly accelerating research, but are these tools helping scientists to advance new frontiers or are they simply optimizing solutions to existing ...