miniature robots

This is a video of a person-shaped robot liquifying to escape from a cage after which it is extracted and remolded back into its original shape. CREDIT Wang and Pan et al.

Miniature person-shaped robots that rapidly and reversibly shift between liquid and solid states

Using a glass needle made to oscillate with the assistance of ultrasound, liquids can be manipulated and particles can be trapped. (Photograph: ETH Zurich)

First a precision arm for the space station, now, a precision arm for miniature robots

Tiny robots carry up to 2,000 times their own weight