The tiny critter is controlled using lasers. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Engineers have developed the world's tiniest ...

Using 'DNA origami' scientists have built innovative nanostructures that pave the way for advanced robotics that can deliver targeted drugs -- plus they made a tiny map of Australia and mini dinosaurs ...

A paper, published today (March 26) in Science Robotics, explains how the team integrated the oloid shape, and its unique rolling motion, into a new magnetic flexible endoscope (MFE). They equipped it ...

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Aditya Nair's independent MSR project was inspired by a hiker's 700-foot fall and could be the beginnings of a search-and-rescue robotic dog to find lost or injured hikers. Amelia Milling was hiking ...

Some robotics challenges have immediately clear applications. Others are more focused on helping systems solve broader challenges. Teaching small robots to play soccer against one another fits firmly ...

For years, researchers in artificial intelligence and robotics have been striving to develop versatile embodied intelligence or agents capable of performing tasks in the real world with the same ...

When Ava’s robot loses power, she and Brooke turn lemons into batteries. When Ava’s robot loses power, she and friend Brooke turn lemons into batteries. Their experiment sparks questions about how ...

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The night before Anna Garverick was to present her independent project for Northwestern Engineering's Master of Science in Robotics (MSR) program, she learned a valuable lesson: Don’t turn your back ...