Engineers at the University of Colorado­—Boulder have designed a new type of “microbot,” which has to potential to revolutionized treatment for various health conditions, including interstitial ...

Pneumonia is a common lung affliction. While a range of things can cause pneumonia, one of the most common include bacterial infections. These bacterial infections are especially common, and worrisome ...

Scientists have developed microscopic robots capable of swimming through the lungs to deliver chemotherapy directly to lung cancer cells. In early testing, these microbots extended the average ...

They’re tiny, rectangular and can do backflips on rough terrain. Side flips, too. They’re polymer and metal microbots, and the hope is the teeny devices will one day transport drugs inside the human ...

Swiss and French microrobots walked away with gold at the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation in Alaska. In the Mobile Microrobotics Challenge, six teams from Canada, Europe ...

Aug. 7 (UPI) --Scientists have designed a tiny robot made of microscopic cubes capable of changing shape when triggered by a magnetic field. Once initiated, the microbot can derive energy from the ...