Lunar Excursion Vehicle 2 (LEV-2), a lunar robot from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), could have been plucked from a science-fiction movie. It’s small—about the size of a baseball—it’s ...

TikTok user Kostas Panayotis shared footage of a Tiny Mobile Robot in action, showing how the technology is used to paint lines on sports fields with minimal human intervention. The compact autonomous ...

Insect-size drones are too small to lug around complex navigation systems. To help tiny autonomous fliers find their way home, researchers are taking their cues from honeybees with the Bee-Nav, ...

Researchers have developed a sensor about the size of a grain of rice that can measure forces and twisting motions in all directions using light instead of traditional electronics. The new sensor ...

Roboticists at Harvard and the Indian Institute of Technology Madras – very smart folks indeed – somehow entirely missed the great name “antdroids” when building the insectoid drones they call RAnts ...

Listen to the audio edition here: Inside a lab in the University of Pennsylvania’s Levine Hall are robots so tiny they can balance on a single ridge on a human fingerprint. At 200 by 300 by 50 ...

MMI is starting FDA-approved human trials for its tiny robot to use needles the size of eyelashes to help clear waste from the brains of Alzheimer’s patients. For the past few months, neurosurgeons at ...

The Chief Magazine Editor will be involved in shaping the strategic direction of Nature, including in digital media. Job Title: Interim Associate or Senior Editor, Nature Energy Fixed Term Contract, ...

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 ...

CES always has its share of attention-grabbing robots. But this year in particular seemed to be a landmark year for robotics. The advancement in AI technology has not only given robots better "brains, ...

With more than a decade of experience, Nelson covers Apple and Google and writes about iPhone and Android features, privacy and security settings, and more. Robots smaller than a grain of salt? It ...

A tiny robot explorer traversed the vast, frigid waters of Antarctica—even diving under the ice at one point. After miraculously surviving all that, the robot brought back souvenirs for scientists. In ...