Cell-sized robots can sense temperature, make decisions, and move autonomously using nanowatts of power—no external control ...

Computer-aided design (CAD) systems are tried-and-true tools used to design many of the physical objects we use each day. But ...

Robots small enough to travel autonomously through the human body to repair damaged sites may seem the stuff of science ...

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and University of Michigan have created the world’s smallest fully programmable ...

The newest frontier in robotics is almost invisible to the naked eye. Researchers have built a robot smaller than a grain of ...

Machine touted as first tiny robot to be able to sense, think and act, envisioning a future of use inside human body.

Over the past decades, roboticists have introduced a wide range of advanced systems that can move around in their ...

Scientists unveil penny-sized microrobots that swim, sense temperature, and run for months using light-powered brains.

In context: Teaching robots new skills has traditionally been slow and painstaking, requiring hours of step-by-step demonstrations for even the simplest tasks. If a robot encountered something ...

In 1982, personal computers were beige, boxy, and built for engineers. They were powerful, but uninviting. Few people knew what they were for, or why they might need one. It took more than just better ...

Professor Boyuan Chen poses with some of his 3D printed robots that were designed and built through his new platform called Text2Robot that allows people to simply tell a computer what kind of robot ...