A new study shows how tiny robotic vessels powered by acoustic waves and an on-board bubble motor can be maneuvered through cellular landscapes using magnets. A new study from the lab of Tho... Read more
Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed tiny ultrasound-powered robots that can swim through blood, removing harmful bacteria along with the toxins they produce. T... Read more
Nanorobotics team demonstrates their new capability to manufacture optical nanotechnologies. A French nanorobotics team from the Femto-ST Institute in Besançon, France, assembled a new micro... Read more
Someday, treating patients with nanorobots could become standard practice to deliver medicine specifically to parts of the body affected by disease But merely injecting drug-loaded nanoparti... Read more
The very first self-propelled, nanoparticle delivering nanobots ever Researchers working at the University of California, San Diego have claimed a world first in proving that artificial, mic... Read more
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
Smart DNA nanorobots that could use logic to diagnose cancer earlier and more accurately than doctors can today; target drugs to tumors, or even manufacture drugs on the spot to cripple canc... Read more
The first step has been taken towards developing a nanorobot that – in the long run – will enable the targeted transport of medications in the body. A nanorobot is a popular term for molecul... Read more
Physicists of the University of Vienna together with researchers from the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna developed nano-machines which recreate principal activities... Read more
Sitti and Yim wanted to engineer an active robotic capsule that could be controlled while inside the gastrointestinal tract. When someone mentions robots, popular representations such as R2-... Read more
This discovery opens up perspectives for a multitude of applications in robotics For the first time, an assembly of thousands of nano-machines capable of producing a coordinated contraction... Read more
Device identifies target then releases deadly payload. DNA origami, a technique for making structures from DNA, may be more than just a cool design concept. It can also be used to build devi... Read more
The yarns are reportedly simple and inexpensive to make We’ve been hearing a lot lately about the possibility of treating medical conditions using nanobots – tiny robots that wou... Read more