Each robot costs only a single penny to manufacture. The robots could help advance everything from nanotechnology ...

The robot is hard to see without a microscope. It’s small enough to rest on the ridge of a fingerprint and can operate in ...

In a joint advance from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan, engineers have designed the smallest fully programmable autonomous robots ever built – ...

Scientists from the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) and the University of Michigan have created the world's smallest autonomous and programmable robots. Each measuring about 200 micrometers wide – ...

Autonomous robot surgeon removes organs with 100% success rate By Bronwyn Thompson July 10, 2025 The da Vinci Research Kit dVRK-Si was upgraded with an AI machine learning brain to create the ...

Delivery robots are increasingly navigating sidewalks and streets, transporting food, groceries, and packages directly to consumers. These autonomous delivery systems are moving beyond pilot programs ...

Autonomous sidewalk delivery specialist Serve Robotics has just unveiled its third generation of robots that are faster, smarter, tougher, and a fraction of the cost to manufacture. With production ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Journalist, analyst, author, podcaster. By 2026, we should have humanoid robots in private homes helping with laundry, vacuuming, ...

Autonomous free-flying robots aboard the International Space Station (ISS) frequently lose their bearings. Without gravity to distinguish up from down, even precision sensors suffer from accumulating ...

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and University of Michigan have created the world's smallest fully programmable ...