microrobotics

The WaterStrider weighs 55 milligrams and can move at 6 millimeters per second (photo by Bob Hubner, WSU Photo Services).
The smallest, lightest and fastest fully functional micro-robots ever known to be created
The WaterStrider weighs 55 milligrams and can move at 6 millimeters per second (photo by
Using a glass needle made to oscillate with the assistance of ultrasound, liquids can be manipulated and particles can be trapped. (Photograph: ETH Zurich)
First a precision arm for the space station, now, a precision arm for miniature robots
Using a glass needle made to oscillate with the assistance of ultrasound, liquids can be
Dr Ali Hoshiar
Swarms of microrobots injected into the body could unblock internal medical devices and avoid further surgery
Dr Ali Hoshiar Swarms of microrobots injected into the body could unblock internal medical devices
Insect-sized flying robots powered by a direct-drive artificial muscle system
Front view of the flying robot. Dr Tim Helps Insect-sized flying robots powered by a
Personalized microrobots can swim through the body and deliver drugs to tumors or carry other cargo
Illustration (top) and scanning electron microscopy image (bottom) of biohybrid bacterial microswimmers, which were fabricated
First flying microrobot with soft actuators

First flight of a microrobot with soft actuators The sight of a RoboBee careening towards

Microrobots can deliver drugs while being monitored and controlled from outside the body

Targeting medical treatment to an ailing body part is a practice as old as medicine

Artificial muscles can now be powered by energy from glucose and oxygen, just like biological muscles

Artificial muscles made from polymers can now be powered by energy from glucose and oxygen,

Removing dental plaque with an army of magnetic microrobots

A productive collaboration between the School of Dental Medicine and School of Engineering and Applied

3D printing magnetic microrobots of many different shapes and sizes

Assembling a microrobot used to require a pair of needle-nosed tweezers, a microscope, steady hands

Invented: Bug-shaped robots are wirelessly powered and tiny enough to be injected through an ordinary hypodermic needle

A million functional microscopic robots produced from a 4-inch silicon wafer in new nanofabrication process

An attachable guidewire and microrobot can move and steer towards a desired direction inside complicated blood vessels

DGIST research team succeeded in developing a microrobot that can reach the accurate location of

3D nanoprinting is set to revolutionize medicine and robotics

UMD engineers demonstrate their approach by printing the smallest-known 3D microfluidic circuit element Engineers at

Smart microrobots capable of adapting to their surroundings could deliver drugs

One day we may be able to ingest tiny robots that deliver drugs directly to

New robots with sticky feet can inspect complex machines without taking them apart

New “HAMR-E” robots could enable inspection of complex machines without dismantling them Jet engines can