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Spiraling Micro-Tentacles for Microrobotics

The tiny tube circled an ant’s thorax, gently trapping the insect and demonstrating the utility of a microrobotic tentacle developed by Iowa State University engineers.

22 Jun 2015

Microbial Robotics Takes Part in CleanEquity Monaco 2015

Microbial Robotics will present at CleanEquity Monaco 2015 on March 5th & 6th at the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco.

24 Feb 2015

Ozobot Receives 2015 Kids at Play Interactive Award for Best Robot at International CES

Who's that tiny dancer in the aisles of the Consumer Electronics Show? It's Ozobot, the world's smallest programmable robot with the intuitive color-based language. Ozobot's capacity for fun and learning are endless.

31 Dec 2014

University of Michigan Researchers Demonstrate Microbot Muscles

In a step toward robots smaller than a grain of sand, University of Michigan researchers have shown how chains of self-assembling particles could serve as electrically activated muscles in the tiny machines.

11 Nov 2014

Robotic Electrode System Helps Maintain Contact with Neurons

They are with us every moment of every day, controlling every action we make, from the breath we breathe to the words we speak, and yet there is still a lot we don’t know about the cells that make up our nervous systems. When things go awry and nerve cells don’t communicate as they should, the consequences can be devastating. Speech can be slurred, muscles stop working on command and memories can be lost forever.

30 Jul 2014

Bacterial Robotics Secures Oncolytic Herpes Simplex Virus from Nationwide Children’s Hospital

Bacterial Robotics, a synthetic microbial biotechnology firm, today announced it secured an oncolytic herpes simplex virus (oHSV) from Nationwide Children's Hospital. The oHSV expresses the human tissue inhibitor metalloproteinases (TIMP3) or firefly luciferase rQT3.

24 Jun 2014

Oscillating Magnetic Fields Control Sperm-Inspired Microrobots

A team of researchers at the University of Twente (Netherlands) and German University in Cairo (Egypt) has developed sperm-inspired microrobots, which can be controlled by oscillating weak magnetic fields.

3 Jun 2014

Southern Nuclear Engineers Team Receive TIP Award for Developing a Top Industry Practice

A team of Southern Nuclear engineers at the Edwin I. Hatch Nuclear Plant were honored yesterday at the Nuclear Energy Assembly in Phoenix, Ariz. They received the nuclear industry's highest honor – a TIP Award – for developing a Top Industry Practice. The team claimed the 2014 GE Hitachi Vendor Award for its participation in GE Hitachi's development of the Stinger™ Automated IVVI, a new first-of-a-kind tool for performing in-vessel visual inspections.

22 May 2014

Optical Tweezers' Control Micro-Robots

The development of light-driven 'micro-robots' that can autonomously investigate and manipulate the nano-scale environment in a microscope comes a step closer, thanks to new research from the University of Bristol.

18 Apr 2014

Tauriga Sciences Enters Merger Agreement with Cannabis Based Healing Products Company, Honeywood

Tauriga Sciences Inc. ("Tauriga" or "the Company"), a diversified life sciences company with key assets that include license agreements, topical medicinal cannabis lotions, and a proprietary technology platform in the nanorobotics space, is pleased to disclose to shareholders that the Company entered into the March 11, 2014 definitive merger agreement ("definitive agreement") with Oakland, California based Honeywood LLC ("Honeywood"), an affiliate of Doc Green's Healing Collective ("Doc Green's").

24 Mar 2014