Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and University of Michigan have created the world's smallest fully programmable ...

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 ...

A tiny robot so small it can barely be seen can still "sense, think, and act" autonomously, according to the engineers who ...

Powered by light, the robots carry computers and can move in complex patterns, say Penn Engineering and University of ...

Each robot costs only a single penny to manufacture. The robots could help advance everything from nanotechnology ...

The robots are both powered and programmed by light pulses, and each has their own unique identifier for individualized programming.

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 – ...

A microrobot can operate independently in liquids for months. The development effort was high, but the costs for the robot ...

Ory Yoshifuji's Tokyo business employs housebound individuals to operate robots as waitstaff at a cafe and as personal tour ...

A group of Upper St. Clair High School students are not only building, designing and programming robots for competitions, ...

Scientists from the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) and the University of Michigan have created the world's smallest autonomous and programmable robots. Each measuring about 200 micrometers wide – ...