Each robot costs only a single penny to manufacture. The robots could help advance everything from nanotechnology ...

There is also a dance studio, complete with a wood floor and large mirrors. Here scientists record the movements of human ...

The tiny, microscopic robot packs an onboard computer, solar cells, and propulsion system, and is capable of sensing its ...

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

Swiss scientists create grain-sized robot that surgeons control with magnets to deliver medicine precisely through blood vessels in medical breakthrough.

The device advances medicine toward a future that might see tiny robots sent into the body to rewire damaged nerves, deliver ...

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

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

Humanoid robots are all over social media, doing everything from dancing to serving drinks. But are they really going to show ...

A research team in South Korea has developed a soft robot named Octoid that can mimic the movement and behavior of an octopus in its natural habitat. The robot's "triple-in-one" system enables it to ...

General-purpose robots remain rare not for a lack of hardware but because we still can’t give machines the physical intuition ...

In one area students sat around a table deciphering coded messages in far less time than seemed possible. Across the hall, two more students measured how much sand would break a wooden structure – 7 ...