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

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

The work, described in a new study in the journal Science Robotics, could be a platform for one day building microscopic ...

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

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

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

Tiny robots smaller than a grain of rice can sense, think, and move on their own. They could one day fix tissue inside 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, ...

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 ...

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