Robots small enough to travel autonomously through the human body to repair damaged sites may seem the stuff of science ...

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

Tiny robots small enough to slip through blood vessels are moving from speculative fiction into the medical lab, promising ...

Scientists unveil penny-sized microrobots that swim, sense temperature, and run for months using light-powered brains.

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

The tiny, microscopic robot packs an onboard computer, solar cells, and propulsion system, and is capable of sensing its ...

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, ...

A breakthrough in medical technology could soon change how sinus infections are treated. Scientists have created micro-robots for sinus infection treatment that can enter the nasal cavity, eliminate ...

Scientists in the United States have developed a robot smaller than a grain of salt that can sense, think and act on its own, ...

Dynamic microscopic robots have been developed to respond to their surroundings, potentially offering a vessel for delivering medicine or cleaning up pollution. Researchers at the University of North ...

Stewart Mallory, assistant professor of chemistry and chemical engineering at Penn State, leads a research group that studies active matter, specifically the collective behavior of self-propelled ...