Microrobots may become an effective tool in breaking down the dangerous blood vessel blockages that cause strokes. But these ...

Tiny magnetic microrobots, developed by ETH Zurich, precisely deliver drugs to stroke clots and tumors, achieving a 95% ...

A team of researchers from North Carolina State University has created a new 3D-printing method that builds paper-thin ...

Robots aren't always the most delicate of machines when handling fragile objects. They don't have the lightness of touch of ...

Chinese researchers have developed a new navigation system for robots inspired by how rats, ants, and birds get their ...

The next generation of soft robots might be folding and sliding as effortlessly as living tissue, say a team of engineers who have created “magnetic muscles” with 3D printing. Filling elastic, ...

A remote-controlled robot the size of a grain of sand can swim through blood vessels to deliver drugs before dissolving into ...

Magnetic soft robots deliver and release tens of millions of probiotic bacteria with timed control, disrupt tumor spheroids ...

Once the microrobot reached its target, the scientists could use a high-frequency magnetic field to heat the microrobot, dissolving its shell and releasing the medicine inside. This invention was ...

Researchers have developed miniature magnetic robots that mimic fish behavior, working together as coordinated swarms to ...

This dual cross-linking design lets the muscle switch stiffness on demand. In lab tests, its stiffness jumps from about 213 ...

Magnetic graphene oxide sheets fold, move, sense motion, and switch function by swapping magnetic layers, offering a fast, reprogrammable platform for soft robots and other morphable structures.