Together, the machines represent a long-awaited breakthrough in microscale robotics, a field that has struggled for decades to combine independent motion, sensing, and computing at extremely small ...

Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan have unveiled the world’s smallest fully ...

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

Scientists have created the world's smallest programmable robots. These microscopic machines swim in liquids and can sense ...

The swimming microbots can autonomously sense and navigate their surroundings, using temperature detection to monitor cell ...

The robots are powered by tiny microcomputers developed by David Blaauw and Dennis Sylvester, engineers at the University of ...

Researchers have unveiled the world’s smallest fully programmable, autonomous robots, sporting a “brain”. The microscopic ...

Manta rays are elegantly shaped. They swim by flapping their fins like enormous wings, and their gills filter for plankton with the utmost precision. These creatures have now inspired human ...

How can researchers explore the depths of ocean worlds like Jupiter’s moon, Europa? This is what the Sensing With Independent Micro-swimmers (SWIM) robotic explorers hopes to address as scientists and ...

(Nanowerk News) A team of researchers has beaten its own record for the fastest swimming soft robot, drawing inspiration from manta rays to improve their ability to control the robot’s movement in the ...