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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

A microrobot can operate independently in liquids for months. The development effort was high, but the costs for the robot ...

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

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.

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 – ...