Tiny robots small enough to slip through blood vessels are moving from speculative fiction into the medical lab, promising ...

In a video out of North Carolina State University and Duke, five tiny cubes float freely under a microscope. Suddenly two pairs snap together, before all five combine into a single unit. Once together ...

The beauty of evolution is that it’s so nonjudgmental. What began as the first organism billions of years ago has diversified into species that fly and hop and run, whatever best suits them in their ...

The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) is taking aim at the shortage of medical services with a program designed to foster development of micro-robots, or microbots, which will ...

Silicon Valley’s SRI International has developed what may be the most amazing microbot army ever: the MicroFactory. This robotic hive of insect-like machines was designed to build almost any kind of ...

Origami principles can unlock the potential of the smallest robots, enhancing speed, agility and control in machines no more than a centimeter in size. University of Michigan researchers have ...