They run on light and are the world’s smallest, fully programmable, autonomous devices ...

Measuring just 200 by 300 by 50 micrometers — smaller than a grain of salt and roughly the size of a single-celled paramecium ...

Scientists have created robots smaller than a grain of salt that can sense their surroundings, make decisions, and move ...

Scientists have built microscopic, light-powered robots that can think, swim, and operate independently at the scale of ...

Researchers in California have created an incredibly small robot that needs no battery or wired power supply to zip through the air. Instead, it uses magnets to fly. A magnetic field produced by an ...

Fixing underground water pipes usually means digging up roads and sidewalks — a process that's disruptive and expensive. However, researchers at the University of Sheffield in the U.K. are working on ...

Jimmy Kimmel answers Stephen Colbert's quickfire questions, gets surprisingly deep Scientists at China's Beihang University developed a tiny morphable robot to explore the ocean's depths — and it's ...

Springtails, small bugs often found crawling through leaf litter and garden soil, are expert jumpers. Inspired by these hopping hexapods, roboticists in the Harvard John A. Paulson School of ...

In the Lohmannshof district of Bielefeld, robots can be booked for small transports. This is intended to reduce individual traffic.