Hey, fellow Sci-Fi lovers! Remember those tiny, magical robots fixing folks up from the inside in our favourite space novels? The so-called ‘nano suites’ — the minuscule bo… Read More
Microbots, or miniature robots, have a lot of potential for various applications in fields such as medicine, manufacturing, and environmental monitoring. As technology continues to advance… Read More
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Researchers at Cornell University have installed electronic brains on solar-powered microrobots.
They are 100 to 250 micrometers in size, smaller than an ant’s head, so… Read More
Tiny Swimming Robots Can Restructure Materials on a Microscopic Level.
Controlling microscopic processes is inherently challenging. The everyday tools we use to manipulate matter on the… Read More
A team of researchers from various institutions including the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS), Cornell University, and Shanghai Jiao Tong University have developed… Read More
Over the years, scientists have come up with all manner of new ways to deliver medication, from sophisticated dual-sided pills to drug-packed nanoparticles. Now, researchers at Drexel Univer… Read More
It's looking more and more likely that tiny robots could one day be swimming and crawling through your body, delivering drugs or scrubbing out your arteries. But the human body is full of wi… Read More
fahrbot-bot shares a report from CNN: A team of physicists at a university in the Netherlands have 3D-printed a microscopic version of the USS Voyager, an Intrepid-class starship from Star T… Read More
Magnetic microbot flip-flops through tricky terrain in the body
If tiny robots are going to one day be making fantastic voyages through our bodies, they’ll need to learn how to t… Read More
When picturing the autonomous delivery services of the near-future, you'll likely imagine drones buzzing overhead with packages in tow. But some ground-based robots are making a push into th… Read More
The RoboBee, a millimeter-wide flying robot platform from Harvard’s Wyss Institute, has been gaining improvements for years. The latest trick of this diminutive robo-creature is to d… Read More