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

The newest generation of microrobots is so small that a single unit can perch on the ridge of a fingerprint and practically vanish from sight. Built at a scale that rivals grains of salt and human ...

Tiny robots small enough to slip through blood vessels are moving from speculative fiction into the medical lab, promising treatments that work from the inside out. Instead of relying on scalpels and ...

One day, robots might navigate through your blood vessels to break up clots, deliver targeted chemotherapy or repair ruptured blood vessels more efficiently and effectively than existing tools, ...

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 ...