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New Software Could Help Design Complex DNA Robots in Minutes

Someday, scientists believe, tiny DNA-based robots and other nanodevices will deliver medicine inside our bodies, detect the presence of deadly pathogens, and help manufacture increasingly smaller electronics.

20 Apr 2021

Scientists Build Miniscule Robots Out of Metal and Plastic

Robots so tiny that they can manoeuvre through our blood vessels and deliver medications to certain points in the body - researchers have been pursuing this goal for years.

25 Nov 2020

Novel Technology for Creating Robot Formed of Loosely Coupled Components

For several decades, fans of science fiction have been enthralled by the concept of “gray goo,” a robot formed of billions of nanoparticles. However, a majority of the scientists have rejected it as merely a wild theory.

21 Mar 2019

Innovative Nano-Bot for Probing Inside Human Cells

Researchers at the University of Toronto Engineering have developed a set of magnetic “tweezers” that can place a nano-scale bead inside a human cell in three dimensions with extraordinary precision.

14 Mar 2019

Researchers Take Artificial Intelligence to a Whole New Level

Computer scientists at TU Wien have used neurobiology to enhance Artificial Intelligence, and taught a machine to park a car using only 12 neurons.

23 Oct 2018

MIT-Created Cell-Sized Robots Could be Used to Travel Via Intestines or Pipelines to Detect Problems

MIT researchers have built perhaps the smallest robots yet that can sense their environment, store data, and even perform computational tasks.

27 Jul 2018

New Microrobotics System Pushes the Limits of Optical Nanotechnologies

A novel microrobotics system, assembled by a French nanorobotics team at the Femto-ST Institute in Besançon, France, pushes the limits of optical nanotechnologies.

23 May 2018

DNA-Assisted Molecular Robots Autonomously Swarm in Response to Chemical and Physical Signals

DNA-assisted molecular robots have been developed by a research team from Hokkaido University and Kansai University.

1 Feb 2018

Researchers Develop Simplified Method for Production and Customization of Soft Robotics

The method produces stronger chemical bonds between silicone and plastic, reducing complexity, time and cost to develop/customize microfluidic devices.

11 Jan 2018

World's First Programmable 'Molecular Robot' Capable of Building Molecular Cargo

The world’s first ‘molecular robot’ has been created by a team of scientists at The University of Manchester. This robot can perform basic tasks as well as build other molecules.

21 Sep 2017