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

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

Scientists have created robots smaller than a grain of salt that can sense their surroundings, make decisions, and move ...

The gap between what's being promised and what robots are capable of today is growing fast. The post Robots Have a Small ...

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

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 ...

Jimmy Kimmel answers Stephen Colbert's quickfire questions, gets surprisingly deep Scientists at China's Beihang University developed a tiny morphable robot to explore the ocean's depths — and it's ...

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 ...

Springtails, small bugs often found crawling through leaf litter and garden soil, are expert jumpers. Inspired by these hopping hexapods, roboticists in the Harvard John A. Paulson School of ...

In the Lohmannshof district of Bielefeld, robots can be booked for small transports. This is intended to reduce individual traffic.