Microscopic Robots That Swim Think and Act on Their Own

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

Researchers create programmable, autonomous robots smaller than a grain of rice

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

Scientists just built programmable robots the size of bacteria that can operate alone for months

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 ...
Hosted on MSN

Light powers the world's smallest programmable robot, at about 0.3 millimeters long

When you think of a robot, your go-to is probably WALL-E, C-3PO, or R2-D2. These hunks of bolts and metal paneling bear little in common with the microrobots that have become widely used across ...