These are the smallest programmable autonomous robots that I have seen,” said Kevin Chen, an MIT roboticist who wasn’t ...

Researchers built autonomous robots the size of salt grains—with onboard computers, sensors, and motors that think and swim ...

The robot is hard to see without a microscope. It’s small enough to rest on the ridge of a fingerprint and can operate in liquid for months. Inside this speck is a functioning computer, a sensor, and ...

If you're ever faced with trying to pick up a grain of rice with a pair of chopsticks, spare a thought for the scientists behind this latest innovation, which has been called "a medical breakthrough ...

Robots need to move, right? That’s where actuators and motors come in. Think of them as the muscles and joints of a robot.

With the explosion in robotic technologies that has occurred in the past decade, it’s important to realize there are three categories of robots: industrial, commercial and consumer. Within each ...

The service robotics industry has grown quickly in recent years, spurred on by advances in robotics technology and artificial ...