Engineers have found a way to shepherd microrobots with no wires, no radios, and no onboard computers. Instead, they steer them with light patterns designed using the same math physicists use to ...

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

Microscale swimming bots take in sensory information, process it and carry out tasks, opening new possibilities in manufacturing and medicine.

The world’s smallest fully programmable, autonomous robots have debuted at the University of Pennsylvania, sporting a brain ...

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CwFwUBhwOw&feature=player_embedded&w=630] Did you know there were 32,000 golf courses in the world? Neither did I, but the ...

Automation in the sense of computer- driven machinery has long been used either inside programmable controllers or PCs running inside machines, usually with dedicated displays. Yet, manufacturers ...