Swarming microrobots self-organize into diverse patterns
Credit: Cornell University
A research collaboration between Cornell and the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems has found an…
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Medical ‘microrobots’ could one day treat bladder disease, other human illnesses
A team of engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder has designed a new class of tiny, self-propelled robots that can zip through liquid at incredible speeds -- and may one day even deliver prescription drugs to hard-to-reach places…
Multimodal locomotion and cargo transportation of magnetically actuated quadruped soft microrobots
Schematic diagram of the bionic walking and gripping of the magnetically actuated quadruped soft microrobot toward gastric biopsy. Credit: Chenyang Huang, Shenzhen…
3D-printing microrobots with multiple component modules inside a microfluidic chip
Credit: Keisuke Morishima, Science Robotics (2022). DOI: 10.1126/scirobotics.aba8212
Scientists from the Department of Mechanical Engineering…
Smart microrobots walk autonomously with electronic ‘brains’
Autonomous microscopic robots.(A) A microscopic robot next to an ant. (B) A zoomed-in view of the robot. The robot is composed of three primary pieces: an IC for…
A tiny, magnetically actuated gearbox that gives microrobots more power
Design and performance of the magnetically actuated miniature gearbox for millimeter-scale magnetic actuators. Credit: Science Robotics (2022). DOI:…
Swarms of microrobots could be solution to unblocking medical devices in body
Swarms of microrobots injected into the human body could unblock internal medical devices and avoid the need for further surgery, according to new research from the University of Essex.
The study is the first-time scientists have developed…
Smart microrobots learn how to swim and navigate with artificial intelligence
Credit: New Jersey Institute of Technology
Researchers from Santa Clara University, New Jersey Institute of Technology and the University of…
Bacteria-based biohybrid microrobots on a mission to one day battle cancer
A team of scientists in the Physical Intelligence Department at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems have combined robotics with biology by equipping E. coli bacteria with artificial components to construct biohybrid…
Turning white blood cells into medicinal microrobots with light
Medicinal microrobots could help physicians better treat and prevent diseases. But most of these devices are made with synthetic materials that trigger immune responses in vivo. Now, for the first time, researchers reporting in ACS Central…