Mechanical engineers at Duke University have demonstrated a proof-of-concept method for programming mechanical properties ...

Mechanical engineers at Duke University have developed solid building blocks whose mechanical properties can ...

Microscale swimming bots take in sensory information, process it and carry out tasks, opening new possibilities in manufacturing and medicine. (Nanowerk News) The world’s smallest fully programmable, ...

Electrically heated elements turn from solids to liquids to provide flexibility to robotic building blocks. We use cookies to ...

Scientists create smallest programmable robots ever - smaller than salt grains, these breakthrough microscopic machines could ...

The world's smallest fully programmable, autonomous robots have debuted at the University of Pennsylvania, sporting a brain developed at the University of Michigan. These microscopic swimming machines ...

Scientists from the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) and the University of Michigan have created the world's smallest autonomous and programmable robots. Each measuring about 200 micrometers wide – ...

Changing robot standards provide an opportunity for designers of cobots to deliver improved safety and greater functionality, ...

Bacteria-scale robots that can run for months without human control are no longer a lab fantasy. Researchers have now built fully programmable micro-machines, smaller than a grain of salt, that can ...

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