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

Soft robots that power themselves from their surroundings are moving from lab curiosity to strategic technology, promising ...

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 ...

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

Picture a robot controlled by micromotors so small and light that it suspends itself over water like a bug. With engineers at the University of Virginia, that’s now an achievable reality. With their ...

Powered by light and guided by ultra-low-energy computing, the robots show what autonomy looks like at the microscale.

Soft robots are prized for their agility and gentle touch, which makes them ideal for traversing delicate or enclosed spaces to perform various tasks, from cultivating baby corals in laboratories to ...