These miniature flyers, invented by the Soft and Micro Robotics Lab have shattered the previously held records: they sustain flight for over 1,000 seconds—more than 100 times longer than earlier ...

A bee-like robot currently under development at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is part of a new generation ...

Researchers from the University of Waterloo in Canada have developed a tiny magnetically steerable “robot” that can dissolve ...

Canadian researchers have developed a tiny flying robot which can be moved through three dimensions using electro-magnets.

Paramecium and certain other microbes move through liquid by whipping back and forth hairlike appendages known as cilia. Scientists have now developed a new type of synthetic cilia, which could ...

Researchers at Tel Aviv University have developed a hybrid micro-robot, the size of a single biological cell (about 10 microns across), that can be controlled and navigated using two different ...

group of scientists at the University of Hawaii have created a unique non-mechanical micro-robot from the most fragile and delicate material possible—a bubble.