Scientists have created robots smaller than a grain of salt that can sense their surroundings, make decisions, and move ...

Researchers have unveiled the world’s smallest fully programmable, autonomous robots, sporting a “brain”. The microscopic swimming machines can sense their surroundings, make decisions, and operate ...

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 – ...

Researchers have created microscopic robots so small they’re barely visible, yet smart enough to sense, decide, and move completely on their own. Powered by light and equipped with tiny computers, the ...

These are the smallest programmable autonomous robots that I have seen,” said Kevin Chen, an MIT roboticist who wasn’t ...

A team of researchers at Cornell University has developed the world’s smallest walking robot. Designed to interact with visible light, the robot moves independently despite its tiny size. The team ...

Engineers at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, have developed the tiniest remote-controlled, walking robot in the world. The robots, which are about half a millimeter wide each, are made ...

Scientists from the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) and the University of Michigan have created the world's smallest autonomous and programmable robots. Each measuring about 200 micrometers wide – ...

Microscale swimming bots take in sensory information, process it and carry out tasks, opening new possibilities in manufacturing and medicine. (Nanowerk News) The world’s smallest fully programmable, ...

Two insect-like robots, a mini-bug and a water strider may be the smallest, lightest and fastest fully functional micro-robots ever known to be created. Such miniature robots could someday be used for ...

The robot, shown on a fingertip for scale. Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania, in collaboration with the University of Michigan, have developed the world's smallest fully programmable and ...

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