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

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

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

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 – ...

Together, the machines represent a long-awaited breakthrough in microscale robotics, a field that has struggled for decades to combine independent motion, sensing, and computing at extremely small ...

The swimming microbots can autonomously sense and navigate their surroundings, using temperature detection to monitor cell ...

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

Scientists have developed microrobots that self-navigate and can transform medicine, sensing, and microscale engineering.

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.

Programmable matter and robotic systems represent a dynamic frontier in materials science and robotics, where discrete, often modular units are designed to change their physical properties and ...

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