Powered by light and guided by ultra-low-energy computing, the robots show what autonomy looks like at the microscale.

The newest frontier in robotics is almost invisible to the naked eye. Researchers have built a robot smaller than a grain of ...

There is also a dance studio, complete with a wood floor and large mirrors. Here scientists record the movements of human ...

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

A former Apple engineer who spent nearly four years working on the company’s internal robotics and autonomy efforts has joined Tesla to help develop its Optimus humanoid robot. Yilun Chen shared the ...

Swiss scientists create grain-sized robot that surgeons control with magnets to deliver medicine precisely through blood ...

The work, described in a new study in the journal Science Robotics, could be a platform for one day building microscopic ...

Scientists from the University of Pennsylvania and University of Michigan have developed a microrobot, smaller than a grain ...

Robots excel at many things, but having a good sense of touch is not among them. Whether dropping items or pinching them too tightly, which crushes the object, many robots struggle with these basic ...

Step inside the Soft Robotics Lab at ETH Zurich, and you find yourself in a space that is part children's nursery, part ...

When it comes to robot musicians, talent runs the gamut about as much as it does for humans. From the bizarre double-armed machine that made a guest appearance in Sweden last fall when it played cello ...