Tiny soft robots can swim, spin and make other complex motions in response to light. Microbots — micrometre-scale robots — could one day be used to deliver medicines or to collect data inside the body ...

(WNDU) - Robots have changed the medical field, and now, those robots are becoming smaller than ever before. They’re called microbots, also known as nanobots. They’re microscopic in scale, and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. STORY: These little green dots are microrobots. They can navigate in a cell network and stimulate individual cells in a targeted ...

Google’s chief engineer and notable futurist Ray Kurzweil has said that nanobots or microbots will flow through our bodies by 2030. While the technology could be life-changing, the prospects for these ...

Various groups are currently working on tiny "robots" that could deliver medication to specific locations within the body. One of the latest such microbots, known as the MANiAC, is designed ...

Scientists have found a new way to use self-propelled microbots to clean wastewater. Researchers and scientists from institutions across Germany and Spain are using graphene and microbots to clean ...

Engineers at the University of Colorado­—Boulder have designed a new type of “microbot,” which has to potential to revolutionized treatment for various health conditions, including interstitial ...

Robotics researchers often turn to the Japanese paper folding art of origami for inspiration, and with some very impressive results. Scientists working in the field at the University of Michigan have ...

Robots have changed the medical field and are now becoming smaller than ever before. They’re called microbots, also known as nanorobots. Microscopic in scale, experts say thousands of them could be ...

These tiny robots take a cue from ant colonies to cooperatively build. Some do the glue work, and some assemble scaffolding that could make for stronger 3D printing. Someday armies of microscopic bots ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Engineers across the globe are champing at the bit to make tiny robots. Once things get small, size scales blend together, but ...

The beauty of evolution is that it’s so nonjudgmental. What began as the first organism billions of years ago has diversified into species that fly and hop and run, whatever best suits them in their ...