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

Cell-sized robots can sense temperature, make decisions, and move autonomously using nanowatts of power—no external control ...

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

A team of researchers at Cornell University has developed the world’s smallest walking robot. Designed to interact with visible light, the robot moves independently despite its tiny size. The team ...

Could a robot smaller than a grain of salt support its own brain, move through fluid environments, and operate for months without outside commands? This is a problem that scientists from the ...

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

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, ...