Measuring just 200 by 300 by 50 micrometers — smaller than a grain of salt and roughly the size of a single-celled paramecium ...

New cell-scale robots can sense their environment, compute decisions, and move independently without magnetic or ultrasonic ...

A team from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan has built the tiniest programmable, self-driving ...

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 ...

They run on light and are the world’s smallest, fully programmable, autonomous devices ...

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

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 liquid for months. Inside this speck is a functioning computer, a sensor, and ...

A team of researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan has reportedly developed what they suggest is the world’s smallest fully programmable, autonomous robots.

A Pittsburgh-based company has unveiled a palm-sized robot dog that obeys voice commands and even does backflips. The Bittle X, developed by Petoi, is an open-source programmable robot dog. Designed ...