Dancing robot is the size of a grain of salt

Each robot costs only a single penny to manufacture. The robots could help advance everything from nanotechnology ...

Researchers build world's smallest autonomous robots

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 – ...
Study Finds on MSN

Cell-sized robots can sense, decide, and move without outside control

The future is now…and it’s tiny. In A Nutshell Researchers built autonomous robots just 210-340 micrometers wide, roughly the ...
Morning Overview on MSN

These soft robots run on air and still sense, think, and move

Soft robots that run on air instead of electricity are starting to behave less like simple inflatable toys and more like ...
The Robot Report

Researchers create programmable, autonomous robots smaller than a grain of rice

Powered by light, the robots carry computers and can move in complex patterns, say Penn Engineering and University of ...

World’s tiniest programmable robots, smaller than a grain of sand can now swim, sense, and think

Scientists have created the world's smallest programmable robots. These microscopic machines swim in liquids and can sense ...
The University of Chicago Chronicle

Sebo Lab: Programming robots to better interact with humans

Editor’s Note: This is part of a series called Inside the Lab, which gives audiences a first-hand look at the research laboratories at the University of Chicago and the scholars who are tackling some ...