The robot is hard to see without a microscope. It’s small enough to rest on the ridge of a fingerprint and can operate in ...

Powered by light, the robots carry computers and can move in complex patterns, say Penn Engineering and University of ...

A tiny robot so small it can barely be seen can still "sense, think, and act" autonomously, according to the engineers who ...

In a joint advance from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan, engineers have designed the smallest fully programmable autonomous robots ever built – ...

The newest frontier in robotics is almost invisible to the naked eye. Researchers have built a robot smaller than a grain of salt that can not only move through its environment but also sense what is ...

News of an upcoming J.J. Abrams project should always be taken with a grain of salt, given his habit of surprising audiences with his “mystery box,” but here’s something to mull over: Bad Robot has ...

Inspired by nature, researchers built a next-gen robot system that mimics swarming behaviors for movement, exploration, transport, and cooperation. (Nanowerk News) Coordinated behaviors like swarming ...

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Figure 2. The liquid robot moves across the water’s surface, captures a foreign substance, and returns to its original position. Figure 3. (Left) Two liquid robots, each carrying different foreign ...

Coordinated behaviors like swarming – from ant colonies to schools of fish – are found everywhere in nature. Researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS ...