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

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

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

Scientists working at microscopic scales have relied on a single dominant fabrication technique to ...

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

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 ...

Researchers have succeeded in developing the smallest fully autonomous robot in history. It measures less than 1 millimeter and can swim underwater for months powered only by light.

Drug-resistant bacteria are one of the most urgent health challenges of our time, affecting people, animals, and the ...

Researchers successfully developed a robotic model that spontaneously generates tunable and accurate run-and-tumble dynamics, ...

At CES 2026, I've seen humanoid robots doing almost everything. They can confidently dance, craft paper windmills, serve you drinks, clean your house mirror, fold your laundry, access the internet to ...