Scientists from the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) and the University of Michigan have created the world's smallest autonomous and programmable robots. Each measuring about 200 micrometers wide – ...

The world’s smallest fully programmable, autonomous robots have debuted at the University of Pennsylvania, sporting a brain ...

Scientists unveil penny-sized microrobots that swim, sense temperature, and run for months using light-powered brains.

The robots are powered by tiny microcomputers developed by David Blaauw and Dennis Sylvester, engineers at the University of ...

The robots are both powered and programmed by light pulses, and each has their own unique identifier for individualized ...

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and University of Michigan have created the world’s smallest fully programmable ...

Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan have unveiled the world’s smallest fully ...

The swimming microbots can autonomously sense and navigate their surroundings, using temperature detection to monitor cell ...

Beyond the technical leap, the finding opens up new opportunities for medicine, environmental monitoring, and ...

Each robot costs only a single penny to manufacture. The robots could help advance everything from nanotechnology ...

Microscale swimming bots take in sensory information, process it and carry out tasks, opening new possibilities in ...

Robots small enough to travel autonomously through the human body to repair damaged sites may seem the stuff of science ...