There's a common popular science demonstration involving "soap boats," in which liquid soap poured onto the surface of water creates a propulsive flow driven by gradients in surface tension. But it ...

How Tiny Robots Are Rewiring Modern Medicine. This video explores medical microrobots that can precisely deliver treatment within the body, overcoming the limitations of traditional medicines that ...

If you've been watching track and field events during the 2024 Paris Olympics, something a bit strange may have caught your attention. In the background, you may have spotted a few tiny, ...

A zinc-air microbattery could enable the deployment of cell-sized, autonomous robots for drug delivery within in the human body, as well as other applications such as locating leaks in gas pipelines.

Happy, sad, surprised, angry, neutral: These are the five emotions conveyed by Bartholomew, the tiny robot designed by researchers in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Just taller than a ...

Swarms of tiny robots guided by magnetic fields can coordinate to act like ants, from packing together to form a floating raft to lifting objects hundreds of times their weight. About the size of a ...