Micro-Robots

The WaterStrider weighs 55 milligrams and can move at 6 millimeters per second (photo by Bob Hubner, WSU Photo Services).

The smallest, lightest and fastest fully functional micro-robots ever known to be created

Invented: Bug-shaped robots are wirelessly powered and tiny enough to be injected through an ordinary hypodermic needle

New robots with sticky feet can inspect complex machines without taking them apart

Magnetically driven micro-robots for drug delivery

Programming tiny robots to think and move like insects

Artificial molecules

via SRI International

A Swarm of Ant-Sized Robots, at Your Service

Soft Mini-Robots: Micro-Robots Will Become Soft and Move Like Biological Organisms