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

The robots are both powered and programmed by light pulses, and each has their own unique identifier for individualized programming.

The tiny, microscopic robot packs an onboard computer, solar cells, and propulsion system, and is capable of sensing its ...

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

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and University of Michigan have created the world’s smallest fully programmable ...

One approach my group is exploring is giving robots a degree of “local intelligence” in their sensorised bodies. Humans ...

The lab robots — adapted, lidar-guided [light detection and ranging] industrial units made by Kuka of Germany — move slowly between automated benchtop reactors and analytical equipment, carrying out ...

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

Bristol University’s Robotics Laboratory has developed the ‘soft’ robot which feeds on living organisms, can digest them, and even ‘die’ at the end of its lifespan. The robot, which is water-based, ...

Visitors can trek through the 'un-natural' habitats of these robots, interacting with creatures that swim, flap and crawl. The exhibition will feature 13 biomimetic robots from across Europe, with ...

She has long brown hair, twitches her eyebrows, sways her heads from side to side and uses her hands for emphasis But despite her realistic appearance, she is in fact a hi-tech robot – “working” at a ...