Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers are working on a new generation of tiny bots inspired by creepy ...

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 flying micro-robot has been developed by researchers at the University of Waterloo in Ontario. A research team lead by professor Mir Behrad Khamesee manipulated magnetic fields to levitate and ...

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

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

Researchers from Tel Aviv University, Israel, have created a micro-robot the size of a single biological cell that navigates using both electricity and magnetic fields and can identify and capture ...

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 ...

A tiny robot made from strands of DNA could pave the way for mini-machines that can dive into the human body to perform surgeries, among other futuristic applications. While DNA-based robots have ...

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.

Researchers 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 mechanisms -- electric and ...

Open Robotics' Katherine Scott explains how micro-ROS fits in with the Robot Operating System.