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Light powers the world's smallest programmable robot, at about 0.3 millimeters long
The robots are powered by tiny microcomputers developed by David Blaauw and Dennis Sylvester, engineers at the University of ...
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World’s smallest autonomous robots redefine microscale engineering
Could a robot smaller than a microorganism actually think on its own? Well, scientists from the University of Pennsylvania ...
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World’s smallest programmable robots think, swim, and sense temperature using light
Scientists unveil penny-sized microrobots that swim, sense temperature, and run for months using light-powered brains.
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and University of Michigan have created the world’s smallest fully programmable ...
Powered by light and guided by ultra-low-energy computing, the robots show what autonomy looks like at the microscale.
Microscale swimming bots take in sensory information, process it and carry out tasks, opening new possibilities in ...
A microrobot can operate independently in liquids for months. The development effort was high, but the costs for the robot ...
Machine touted as first tiny robot to be able to sense, think and act, envisioning a future of use inside human body.
The world's smallest fully programmable, autonomous robots have debuted at the University of Pennsylvania, sporting a brain developed at the University of Michigan.
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