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

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

Learn more about these tiny robots that can alter their surroundings and monitor our health.

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

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 – ...

Scientists have created the world's smallest programmable robots, each smaller than a grain of salt and costing just one ...

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

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

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

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

Powered by light and guided by ultra-low-energy computing, the robots show what autonomy looks like at the microscale.

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