The newest frontier in robotics is almost invisible to the naked eye. Researchers have built a robot smaller than a grain of salt that can not only move through its environment but also sense what is ...

In a joint advance from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan, engineers have designed the smallest fully programmable autonomous robots ever built – ...

Solving a technical challenge that has stymied science for 40 years, researchers have built a robot with an onboard computer, sensors and a motor, the whole assembly less than 1 millimeter in size — ...

From R2-D2 to Optimus Prime, Wall-E to The Iron Giant, robots have long captured our collective imaginations. In today’s world, their influence is far less limited to fictional settings; robotics are ...

Robots are starting to do in a few days what medicinal chemists once needed months to attempt, churning out hundreds of potential antibiotic molecules and testing them against dangerous bacteria at ...

The Master of Science in Robotics final project is where students put the skills, lessons, and ideas they've developed into practice. These faculty-guided experiences provide an opportunity for ...

A tiny, soft, flexible robot that can crawl through earthquake rubble to find trapped victims or travel inside the human body to deliver medicine may seem like science fiction, but an international ...

What if your childhood Tamagotchi could step off the screen and into the real world? Imagine a tiny robot, complete with blinking eyes and lifelike movements, responding to your voice and following ...

Alphabet previously killed a robotics project called Everyday Robots. Now it's saying goodbye to another one: an exoskeleton project called Skip.