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

Chronic job insecurity undermines any chance of solidarity. It reduces the horizon of struggle to one of personal survival.

But a team of researchers from Dario Floreano’s Laboratory of Intelligent Systems at EPFL in Switzerland has found a way to ...

At first glance, a flyable airplane made of cardboard sounds almost like a joke – the sort of thing that collapses long before it ever leaves the ground. But YouTuber and serial tinkerer Peter Sripol ...

We’re far from realizing the kind of nanomachines envisioned in media like “The Diamond Age” and Metal Gear Solid, but scientists have just taken a meaningful step towards the next best thing. A team ...

The device advances medicine toward a future that might see tiny robots sent into the body to rewire damaged nerves, deliver ...

Solving a technical challenge that has stymied science for 40 years, researchers have built a robot with an onboard computer, sensors and a motor, the whole assembly less than 1 millimeter in size — ...

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

But you can see the market appeal. A robot vacuum cleaner can’t climb stairs to clean an upstairs room. A robot arm that ...

Introducing new tech to a production line is always a balance, says Craig Le Clair, principal analyst at the research firm ...