These miniature flyers, invented by the Soft and Micro Robotics Lab have shattered the previously held records: they sustain flight for over 1,000 seconds—more than 100 times longer than earlier ...

A bee-like robot currently under development at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is part of a new generation ...

Precision is everything when it comes to microsurgery. A few microns—smaller than the width of a human hair—can mean the ...

Bees' flight capabilities are quite sophisticated, but strangely, the MIT roboticists ended up building a robot that sported 8 wings.

Canadian researchers have developed a tiny flying robot which can be moved through three dimensions using electro-magnets.

Paramecium and certain other microbes move through liquid by whipping back and forth hairlike appendages known as cilia. Scientists have now developed a new type of synthetic cilia, which could ...

Researchers from Tel Aviv University, Israel, have created a micro-robot the size of a single biological cell that navigates using both electricity and magnetic fields and can identify and capture ...

The U.S. Army is preparing—for the first time—to develop and field micro robotic systems under programs of record, indicating confidence that the technology has matured and years of research are ...

Researchers at Tel Aviv University have developed a hybrid micro-robot, the size of a single biological cell (about 10 microns across), that can be controlled and navigated using two different ...

Open Robotics' Katherine Scott explains how micro-ROS fits in with the Robot Operating System.