microbots

A laser precisely guided a “neutrobot” toward a nanoparticle (left image), which was picked up and transported away (right image). Credit: Adapted from ACS Central Science 2022, DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.2c00468
Using white blood cells as microbots to treat disease
A laser precisely guided a “neutrobot” toward a nanoparticle (left image), which was picked up
Magnetically steerable bacterial biohybrid microrobots
Schematic showing bacterial biohybrid microrobots magnetically guided through fibrous environments. Bacterial biohybrids can release their
Artificial muscles can now be powered by energy from glucose and oxygen, just like biological muscles

Artificial muscles made from polymers can now be powered by energy from glucose and oxygen,

Invented: Bug-shaped robots are wirelessly powered and tiny enough to be injected through an ordinary hypodermic needle

A million functional microscopic robots produced from a 4-inch silicon wafer in new nanofabrication process

Magnetically driven micro-robots for drug delivery

Rice scientists create microscopic ‘swimmers’ controlled by a magnetic field What are those tiny spheres

Mini flying machines get ready for their close up as floating specs of dust or?

Tiny floating robots could be useful in all kinds of ways, for example, to probe

The age of bio inspired microrobots – from jumping spiders to flying bees

Jumping robot spiders and swarms of robotic bees sounds like the stuff of science fiction,

All-terrain microbot has far-reaching potential in micro-object manipulation and biomedical applications

A new type of all-terrain microbot that moves by tumbling could help usher in tiny

Capturing and transporting single cells with pre-programmed microbot origami

Researchers at North Carolina State University and Duke University have developed a way to assemble

Disease-causing bacteria captured by swimming microbots

The lack of clean water in many areas around the world is a persistent, major

Micro multi-lens camera can be injected with a syringe

German engineers have created a camera no bigger than a grain of salt that could

Microagents with revolutionary potential to deliver drugs to attack cancer tumors

Micro and nanorobots that attack tumours with maximum precision using drugs: this is what the

Bacteria-Powered Microrobots Plot a Course Using Electric Fields

The problem with having a microscopic robot propelled by a horde of tail-flailing bacteria is

Microbots controlled using mini force fields

Researchers are using a technology likened to “mini force fields” to independently control individual microrobots