Cell-sized robots can sense temperature, make decisions, and move autonomously using nanowatts of power—no external control ...

A tiny robot so small it can barely be seen can still "sense, think, and act" autonomously, according to the engineers who ...

Soft robots that run on air instead of electricity are starting to behave less like simple inflatable toys and more like ...

In a joint advance from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan, engineers have designed the smallest fully programmable autonomous robots ever built – ...

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

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

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

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

Tiny robots smaller than a grain of rice can sense, think, and move on their own. They could one day fix tissue inside the human body.

Researchers develop salt-sized autonomous robots that can swim, sense temperature, and think independently, opening new ...

Microscale swimming bots developed by U-M and Penn take in sensory information, process it and carry out tasks, opening new possibilities in ...