Researchers at Penn’s School of Engineering and Applied Science, alongside collaborators from the University of Michigan, ...

Researchers at Penn and the University of Michigan have developed the world’s smallest, fully autonomous robots. The health ...

University of Pennsylvania researchers have created what they describe as the world's tiniest robot. It's a machine so small it is barely visible to the naked eye, yet equipped with sensors, a motor ...

For decades, microscopic robots lived mostly in our imagination. Movies like "Fantastic Voyage" convinced us that tiny machines would one day cruise through the human body, fixing problems from the ...

Learn about the materials and technologies powering untethered micro devices in healthcare, and discover the clinical applications in oncology and vascular disease.

Bacteria-scale robots that can run for months without human control are no longer a lab fantasy. Researchers have now built fully programmable micro-machines, smaller than a grain of salt, that can ...

A breakthrough in medical technology could soon change how sinus infections are treated. Scientists have created micro-robots for sinus infection treatment that can enter the nasal cavity, eliminate ...

Dynamic microscopic robots have been developed to respond to their surroundings, potentially offering a vessel for delivering medicine or cleaning up pollution. Researchers at the University of North ...