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

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 ...

If you accidentally put your hand on a hot object, you'll naturally pull it away fast, before you have to think about it.

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

The researchers behind the recent work, based in China, decided to implement something similar for an artificial skin that ...

As part of China's broader push in the field of robotics, it is set to deploy a fleet of robots to the Fanggengchang border ...

Scientists from the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) and the University of Michigan have created the world's smallest autonomous and programmable robots. Each measuring about 200 micrometers wide – ...

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

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and University of Michigan have created the world’s smallest fully programmable, autonomous robots: microscopic swimming machines that can independently ...

An Argo ocean float was lost in the Antarctic for months under the Denman and Shackleton ice shelves, and it returned with ...