Smaller than a grain of salt, the light-powered bots can think, sense and act on their own, opening up new possibilities in manufacturing and medicine Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and ...

Tiny robots small enough to slip through blood vessels are moving from speculative fiction into the medical lab, promising treatments that work from the inside out. Instead of relying on scalpels and ...

Tony Jun Huang is in the Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA. Shi et al. harness the physics of resonant ...

Robots are beginning to appear in the public arena, such as in restaurants and supermarkets. But most are still hidden away in industrial settings, including warehouses and factories. That is set to ...