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

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

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and University of Michigan have created the world’s smallest fully programmable ...

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

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

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

A microrobot can operate independently in liquids for months. The development effort was high, but the costs for the robot ...

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

The swimming microbots can autonomously sense and navigate their surroundings, using temperature detection to monitor cell ...

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

Hyundai Motor Group used this year’s International Robot Exhibition (iREX) in Tokyo to roll out something that feels a bit like a science-fair project but is in reality a product headed for the real ...

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