The robots are powered by tiny microcomputers developed by David Blaauw and Dennis Sylvester, engineers at the University of ...

Each robot costs only a single penny to manufacture. The robots could help advance everything from nanotechnology ...

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

The robots are both powered and programmed by light pulses, and each has their own unique identifier for individualized ...

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and University of Michigan have created the world’s smallest fully programmable ...

Researchers have unveiled the world’s smallest fully programmable, autonomous robots, sporting a “brain”. The microscopic ...

A microrobot can operate independently in liquids for months. The development effort was high, but the costs for the robot ...

Tiny robots smaller than a grain of rice can sense, think, and move on their own. They could one day fix tissue inside the ...

Microscale swimming bots take in sensory information, process it and carry out tasks, opening new possibilities in ...

Powered by light and guided by ultra-low-energy computing, the robots show what autonomy looks like at the microscale.

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have developed the world's smallest fully programmable, autonomous robots, almost invisible to the naked eye.

The world's smallest fully programmable, autonomous robots have debuted at the University of Pennsylvania, sporting a brain developed at the University of Michigan.