The robot is hard to see without a microscope. It’s small enough to rest on the ridge of a fingerprint and can operate in ...

Researchers have created microscopic robots so small they’re barely visible, yet smart enough to sense, decide, and move completely on their own. Powered by light and equipped with tiny computers, the ...

Scientists have built microscopic, light-powered robots that can think, swim, and operate independently at the scale of ...

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan have built the smallest fully programmable autonomous robots ever ...

Despite their size, the robots can navigate liquids, respond to their environment and operate without external control.

Robots that can think and move are no longer confined to factory floors or humanoid prototypes. Researchers have now shrunk ...

Tiny robots smaller than cells can swim, sense surroundings, and decode temperature through miniature dance-like movements ...

Scientists from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan have created the world's smallest programmable robots. These tiny machines are so small that they are nearly invisible to ...

Scientists have created robots smaller than a grain of salt that can sense their surroundings, make decisions, and move ...

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 at CU Boulder have created tiny, microorganism-inspired particles that can change their shape and self-propel, ...