Scientists have shown the method to develop tiny, self-powered swimming micro-robots, and just from the use of three simple ingredients. The method involves combining oil drops with water containing a ...

(Nanowerk News) When you’re just a few microns long, swimming can be difficult. At that size scale, the viscosity of water is more like that of honey, and momentum can’t be relied upon to maintain ...

Some of us might imagine robots to be big hulking contraptions of mass destruction, but one of the applications of robotics and science goes in the opposite direction, scaling down these objects so ...

Racing tiny mechanical swimmers against one another in a virtual environment should help scientists design medical micro-robots that can swim, wriggle or crawl more easily through the human body.

Researchers from Tampere University in Finland and Anhui Jianzhu University in China have made a significant breakthrough in soft robotics. Their groundbreaking study introduces the first toroidal, ...

It's looking more and more likely that tiny robots could one day be swimming and crawling through your body, delivering drugs or scrubbing out your arteries. But the human body is full of wildly ...

To get microscopic drug carriers swimming toward a target, German researchers took a cue from some of the best swimmers in nature: sperm cells. Scientists from the Institute for Integrative ...

Researchers introduces the first toroidal, light-driven micro-robot that can move autonomously in viscous liquids, such as mucus. This innovation marks a major step forward in developing micro-robots ...