microrobots

Microrobots can deliver drugs while being monitored and controlled from outside the body

Targeting medical treatment to an ailing body part is a practice as old as medicine

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,

Tiny robots powered by magnetic fields could help drug-delivery nanoparticles reach their targets

Nanoparticles take a fantastic, magnetic voyage MIT engineers have designed tiny robots that can help

Removing dental plaque with an army of magnetic microrobots

A productive collaboration between the School of Dental Medicine and School of Engineering and Applied

3D printing magnetic microrobots of many different shapes and sizes

Assembling a microrobot used to require a pair of needle-nosed tweezers, a microscope, steady hands

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

An attachable guidewire and microrobot can move and steer towards a desired direction inside complicated blood vessels

DGIST research team succeeded in developing a microrobot that can reach the accurate location of

Smart microrobots capable of adapting to their surroundings could deliver drugs

One day we may be able to ingest tiny robots that deliver drugs directly to

New robots with sticky feet can inspect complex machines without taking them apart

New “HAMR-E” robots could enable inspection of complex machines without dismantling them Jet engines can

Really really small soft multi-functional microrobots

A new approach for fabricating soft materials at the millimeter scale paves the way to

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A Swarm of Ant-Sized Robots, at Your Service

While the robots imagined in science fiction novels have often looked like humans, today’s robotic