Micro- and nano-swimmers can be propelled through media similar to bodily fluids Micro- or even nano-robots could someday perform medical tasks in the human body. Researchers from the Max Pl... Read more
While the robots imagined in science fiction novels have often looked like humans, today’s robotic armies are emerging in all shapes and sizes. Take the little army of bots made by SRI Inter... Read more
To the best of our knowledge, this is the first miniature robot that having all the three capabilities: running, jumping, and aerial maneuvering. In nature, small animals or insects use mult... Read more
Harvard has been working on a robotic bee for five years now. Five years is a long time in the fast-paced world of robotics, but when you’re trying to design a controllable flying robo... Read more
The first bio-inspired jumping water strider microrobot. The first bio-inspired microrobot capable of not just walking on water like the water strider – but continuously jumping up and down... Read more
Magnetically levitated microbots, some the size of a pinhead, demonstrate construction skills on the small scale A pioneering research institute that introduced the computer world to the mou... Read more