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Scientists have shown the method to develop tiny, self-powered swimming micro-robots, and just from the use of three simple ingredients. The method involves combining oil drops with water containing a ...

Some of us might imagine robots to be big hulking contraptions of mass destruction, but one of the applications of robotics and science goes in the opposite direction, scaling down these objects so ...

(Nanowerk News) When you’re just a few microns long, swimming can be difficult. At that size scale, the viscosity of water is more like that of honey, and momentum can’t be relied upon to maintain ...

(Nanowerk News) When you’re just a few microns long, swimming can be difficult. At that size scale, the viscosity of water is more like that of honey, and momentum can’t be relied upon to maintain ...

It's looking more and more likely that tiny robots could one day be swimming and crawling through your body, delivering drugs or scrubbing out your arteries. But the human body is full of wildly ...

Racing tiny mechanical swimmers against one another in a virtual environment should help scientists design medical micro-robots that can swim, wriggle or crawl more easily through the human body.

In the 1960s science fiction film Fantastic Voyage, audiences thrilled to the idea of shrinking a submarine and the people inside it to microscopic dimensions and injecting it into a person’s ...

To get microscopic drug carriers swimming toward a target, German researchers took a cue from some of the best swimmers in nature: sperm cells. Scientists from the Institute for Integrative ...

Researchers have used complex computational models to design micro-swimmers that could overcome the challenges of swimming at the micron scale. These autonomous micro-robots could carry cargo and ...