Bacteria-scale robots that can run for months without human control are no longer a lab fantasy. Researchers have now built ...

Powered by light, the robots carry computers and can move in complex patterns, say Penn Engineering and University of ...

Engineers have found a way to shepherd microrobots with no wires, no radios, and no onboard computers. Instead, they steer them with light patterns designed using the same math physicists use to ...

Scientists have created the world's smallest programmable robots. These microscopic machines swim in liquids and can sense ...

Tiny particles are opening big doors for medicine, materials science, and even environmental cleanup. Across the world, scientists are racing to understand how these microscopic swimmers behave, ...

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 develop salt-sized autonomous robots that can swim, sense temperature, and think independently, opening new ...

In a lab experiment that sounds closer to science fiction than engineering, researchers have unveiled what they describe as the world’s smallest fully programmable robot. Measuring just fractions of a ...

Stewart Mallory, assistant professor of chemistry and chemical engineering at Penn State, leads a research group that studies active matter, specifically the collective behavior of self-propelled ...

Researchers have created the world's smallest autonomous robots smaller than a grain of salt. These programmable ...

A breakthrough in medical technology could soon change how sinus infections are treated. Scientists have created micro-robots for sinus infection treatment that can enter the nasal cavity, eliminate ...