Designing a small-scale flying robot posed significant challenges. Traditional flying robots rely on onboard power sources ...

capturing their dynamic behavior as they crawl and roll into a ball to move along a simple course. The robots move using hard ...

The bumblebee-inspired robot is less than a centimeter wide and can hover, change direction, and hit small targets. Like a ...

The robot is powered and steered by an alternating magnetic field which is externally generated along a single axis. As the bot's two magnets are simultaneously attracted to and repelled by that ...

Imagine a tiny, squishy robot that can crawl through earthquake debris to find people trapped under rubble, or travel inside ...

A research team has developed an ... Mar. 26, 2025 — A tiny magnetic robot which can take 3D scans from deep within the body, that could revolutionize early cancer detection, has been developed ...

Credit: Nanotechnology and Precision Engineering (2024). DOI: 10.1063/10.0034396 Safer, more precise procedures with microrobots Microrobots are miniature robots that are made using nanotechnology ...

Mini rolling robot takes virtual biopsies Date: March 26, 2025 Source: University of Leeds Summary: A tiny magnetic robot which can take 3D scans from deep within the body, that could ...

“Using what we call a magnetic tweezer system, an operator will be able to precisely manipulate tiny robots in a liquid environment, even from long distances,” said SMU nanotechnology expert MinJun ...