Scientists create smallest programmable robots ever - smaller than salt grains, these breakthrough microscopic machines could ...

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 ...

Chinese robotics firm PrimeBot has unveiled Q1, the world’s smallest humanoid robot, and T1, a transformable model, ...

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

Microscale swimming bots take in sensory information, process it and carry out tasks, opening new possibilities in manufacturing and medicine. (Nanowerk News) The world’s smallest fully programmable, ...

A new insect-inspired flying robot created by engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, can hover, change trajectory and even hit small targets. The flying robot is less than 1 centimeter ...

TL;DR: Engineers at UC Berkeley developed the world's smallest wireless flying robot, less than 1cm in diameter and weighing 21mg. Powered and controlled by an external magnetic field, it can hover, ...

Fixing underground water pipes usually means digging up roads and sidewalks — a process that's disruptive and expensive. However, researchers at the University of Sheffield in the U.K. are working on ...

Researchers in California have created an incredibly small robot that needs no battery or wired power supply to zip through the air. Instead, it uses magnets to fly. A magnetic field produced by an ...