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

In a joint advance from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan, engineers have designed the smallest fully programmable autonomous robots ever built – ...

Robots are starting to do in a few days what medicinal chemists once needed months to attempt, churning out hundreds of potential antibiotic molecules and testing them against dangerous bacteria at ...

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

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

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

The future is now…and it’s tiny. In A Nutshell Researchers built autonomous robots just 210-340 micrometers wide—roughly the ...

Autonomous free-flying robots aboard the International Space Station (ISS) frequently lose their bearings. Without gravity to distinguish up from down, even precision sensors suffer from accumulating ...

Humanoid robots, once confined to science fiction, are transitioning into viable commercial entities due to advances in ...

Robots small enough to travel autonomously through the human body to repair damaged sites may seem the stuff of science ...

This a robot can walk, without electronics, and only with the addition of a cartridge of compressed gas, right off the 3D-printer. It can also be printed in one go, from one material. Imagine a robot ...