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

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

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

The quest to mimic human touch in technology has led researchers to explore piezoelectric and triboelectric effects as pivotal phenomena. These effects underpin a new generation of tactile sensors ...

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

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 ...

Home-ready robots are just starting to be commercialised, but many issues still stand in their way – from cost, utility and ...

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 – ...