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

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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 ...

When you think of a robot, your go-to is probably WALL-E, C-3PO, or R2-D2. These hunks of bolts and metal paneling bear little in common with the microrobots that have become widely used across ...

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 ...