Targeting medical treatment to an ailing body part is a practice as old as medicine itself. A Band-Aid is placed on a skinned knee. Drops go into itchy eyes. A broken arm goes into a cast. B... Read more
Artificial muscles made from polymers can now be powered by energy from glucose and oxygen, just like biological muscles. This advance may be a step on the way to implantable artificial musc... Read more
A productive collaboration between the School of Dental Medicine and School of Engineering and Applied Science led to the microbe-killing robots for biofilm elimination. A visit to the denti... Read more
Assembling a microrobot used to require a pair of needle-nosed tweezers, a microscope, steady hands and at least eight hours. But now U of T Engineering researchers have developed a method t... Read more
A million functional microscopic robots produced from a 4-inch silicon wafer in new nanofabrication process developed by engineers at the University of Pennsylvania Researchers have harnesse... Read more
DGIST research team succeeded in developing a microrobot that can reach the accurate location of cardiovascular disease such as the Chronic Total Occlusion by moving and steering the microro... Read more
One day we may be able to ingest tiny robots that deliver drugs directly to diseased tissue, thanks to research being carried out at EPFL and ETH Zurich. The group of scientists – led by Sel... Read more
New “HAMR-E” robots could enable inspection of complex machines without dismantling them Jet engines can have up to 25,000 individual parts, making regular maintenance a tedious task that ca... Read more
A new approach for fabricating soft materials at the millimeter scale paves the way to a new generation of flexible microrobots for medical and environmental tasks Roboticists are envisionin... Read more
To develop micro- and biomimetic-robots, artificial muscles and medical devices, actuating materials that can reversibly change their volume under various stimuli are researched in the past... 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
Rice scientists create microscopic ‘swimmers’ controlled by a magnetic field What are those tiny spheres doing as they move across that slide? They’re doing the breaststroke. Rice University... Read more
Jumping robot spiders and swarms of robotic bees sounds like the stuff of science fiction, but researchers at The University of Manchester are already working on such projects and aiming to... Read more
Great potential as soft robotic material of the future Scientists at Waseda University may have come a step closer to innovating soft robots to care for people. Its material, however, is som... Read more
