They run on light and are the world’s smallest, fully programmable, autonomous devices ...
A tiny robot so small it can barely be seen can still "sense, think, and act" autonomously, according to the engineers who built it. To the team's best knowledge, this joint invention is the world's ...
Future Energy and Innovation Laboratory, Central European Institute of Technology, Brno University of Technology, Purkyňova 123, Brno 61200, Czech Republic Quantum Materials Laboratory, 3D Printing ...
The live pig in the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine was a common sight for Sylvain Martel, a nanorobotics researcher at Polytechnique Montréal in Canada, by the time he stepped into the ...
Magnetic nanobots -- tiny machines -- may be the solution for sensitive teeth by plugging “holes” in tooth enamel to provide instant relief, according to a press release from the Indian Institute of ...
Having hypersensitive teeth can be quite the hassle, making it painful to consume hot, cold, sweet and/or acidic foods and beverages. Tiny new "robots" are here to help, by permanently plugging ...
Abstract: Nanorobotics is the field of inventing machines or robots at or close to the scale of a nanometer ($10^{-9}$ m). Advances in medical robots promise to improve modern medicine and the quality ...
Imagine if scientists could grab virus particles the same way we pick up a tennis ball or a clementine, and prevent them from infecting cells. Well, scientists in Illinois have built a microscopic ...