They run on light and are the world’s smallest, fully programmable, autonomous devices ...

A small do-it-yourself desk robot named Mo-chan has been shared with makers, demonstrating how individuals can build simple robotics and electronics projects on their own. This project uses an ...

Measuring just 200 by 300 by 50 micrometers — smaller than a grain of salt and roughly the size of a single-celled paramecium ...

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

Solving a technical challenge that has stymied science for 40 years, researchers have built a robot with an onboard computer, sensors and a motor, the whole assembly less than 1 millimeter in size — ...

The bleeding edge: Nanomachines were once a distant fantasy of science fiction writers and video games like Deus Ex and Metal Gear Solid. However, recent advances in miniaturization have brought those ...

Robots that can think and move are no longer confined to factory floors or humanoid prototypes. Researchers have now shrunk ...