For nearly half a century, the dream of microscopic robotics has felt tantalizingly close, yet perpetually out of reach. We have grown up on a diet of science fiction like Fantastic Voyage, imagining ...

Learn more about these tiny robots that can alter their surroundings and monitor our health. When you think of a robot, your go-to is probably WALL-E, C-3PO, or R2-D2. These hunks of bolts and metal ...

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 ...

A team of scientists from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan has developed the world's smallest, fully programmable autonomous robot. The robot measures only 200 µm x 300 µm ...

A peek at Misty, an advanced, programmable home robot that makes faces There's plenty of consumer robots out there, and a growing number of programmable robotic platforms for the home, office, or ...

Mechanical engineers at Duke University have demonstrated a proof-of-concept method for programming mechanical properties ...