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 ...

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 ...

Scientists from China and Hong Kong say they have created tiny robots that can help clear serious bacterial infections deep inside the sinuses, without the need for surgery or drugs. Published in ...

Marine flatworms are cool. Hear me out. They’ve mastered the art of smooth undulating motion and perfected it over millions ...

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 ...

A tiny, soft, flexible robot that can crawl through earthquake rubble to find trapped victims or travel inside the human body to deliver medicine may seem like science fiction, but an international ...

MIAMI – Noaa has five new helpers in the Atlantic as the statistical peak of hurricane season happens, even with the ongoing lull in activity. The extra data from five small uncrewed surface vehicles ...

Most robots depend on controlled environments, because the real world is hard to get around in. The smaller the robot, the bigger this problem because little wheels (or legs) can take only little ...

An international research team led by the University of Waterloo is developing technology to dissolve painful kidney stones in the urinary tract using tiny robots. The research is published in the ...

One slithers. One crawls. Neither looks like much on their own. But together, they form a super team—one that might just change how we inspect the most complicated machines in the world. Kaushik ...