Tiny robots smaller than cells can swim, sense surroundings, and decode temperature through miniature dance-like movements ...

Bacteria-scale robots that can run for months without human control are no longer a lab fantasy. Researchers have now built ...

Science has been exploring the idea of putting tiny robots inside the human body, assigning them tasks ranging from delivering drugs at target spots and performing surgery to 3D-printing inside living ...

Scientists in Hong Kong have created an advanced electronic skin that enables robots to sense touch and respond to pain in a ...

Scientists have created microscopic living robots that may be able to help heal the very things they’re made from: human cells. The creation, which was named Anthrobots, was made by a team at Tufts ...

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 – ...

Watch our interview with Professor Kevin Warwick, School of Systems Engineering, and Dr Ben Whalley, School of Pharmacy (WAV – 57MB) A multidisciplinary team at the University of Reading has developed ...

Researchers at Tufts University and Harvard University’s Wyss Institute have created tiny biological robots that they call Anthrobots from human tracheal cells that can move across a surface and have ...

Engineers at MIT have devised an ingenious new way to produce artificial muscles for soft robots that can flex in more than one direction, similar to the complex muscles in the human body. The team ...

Have you ever wondered how our brave soldiers deal with nasty stuff like chemical and biological weapons? Currently, it's a risky and time-consuming process. Soldiers have to suit up in cumbersome NBC ...