In northeastern Brazil, termites have transformed an area about the size of Great Britain by sensing their environment, communicating with each other about it and working together to build vast tunnel systems. Inspired by this and other instances of the small but mighty collective activity in nature, Cornell physics researchers have made robots that for the first time can sense the temperature of their surroundings and react together to change it. “Little things can have a la

In the world of robots, the equivalent of cell-cell adhesion is achieved with magnets, which are incorporated into the perimeter of the robo

@ University of Amsterdam If it walks like a particle, and talks like a particle… it may still not be a particle. A topological soliton...

A team of University of Waterloo researchers has created smart, advanced materials that will be the building blocks for a future...

An international team of scientists headed by the University of Bonn has developed a novel type of nanomotor. It is driven by a clever...

NIST scientist Gary Zabow had never intended to use candy in his lab. It was only as a last resort that he had even tried burying...

Taking advantage of a phenomenon known as emergent behavior in the microscale, MIT engineers have designed simple microparticles that can...

AUSTIN, Texas — Inspired by living things from trees to shellfish, researchers at The University of Texas at Austin set out to create a...

Nanoengineers at the University of California San Diego have developed microscopic robots, called microrobots, that can swim around in...

Developing a lightweight material that is both strong and highly ductile has been regarded as a long-desired goal in the field of...

MIT researchers have developed a method for 3D printing materials with tunable mechanical properties, that sense how they are moving and...

Researchers from TU Delft have constructed the smallest flow-driven motors in the world. Inspired by iconic Dutch windmills and...