Robots have steadily become smaller, cheaper, and more capable—but until now, true autonomy stopped at around the millimeter ...

Scientists create smallest programmable robots ever - smaller than salt grains, these breakthrough microscopic machines could ...

A team from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan has built the tiniest programmable, self-driving robots ever made—microscopic ...

They swim, think, and even respond to their environment, and they're tinier than a grain of salt. Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan have unveiled the world ...

With more than a decade of experience, Nelson covers Apple and Google and writes about iPhone and Android features, privacy and security settings, and more. Robots smaller than a grain of salt? It ...

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, ...

Shape shifts happen all around you. Cells stretch, tissues curl, and living structures shift their form as naturally as breathing. Scientists have tried to copy those abilities for years, hoping to ...

Dynamic microscopic robots have been developed to respond to their surroundings, potentially offering a vessel for delivering medicine or cleaning up pollution. Researchers at the University of North ...

The Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...

New cell-scale robots can sense their environment, compute decisions, and move independently without magnetic or ultrasonic control systems.