Each robot costs only a single penny to manufacture. The robots could help advance everything from nanotechnology ...
The robots are powered by tiny microcomputers developed by David Blaauw and Dennis Sylvester, engineers at the University of ...
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 ...
The robots are both powered and programmed by light pulses, and each has their own unique identifier for individualized ...
The world's smallest fully programmable, autonomous robots have debuted at the University of Pennsylvania, sporting a brain developed at the University of Michigan.
A microrobot can operate independently in liquids for months. The development effort was high, but the costs for the robot ...
Tiny robots smaller than a grain of rice can sense, think, and move on their own. They could one day fix tissue inside the human body.
Microscale swimming bots take in sensory information, process it and carry out tasks, opening new possibilities in ...