What if doctors could explore your body without a single incision? Scientists Alex Luebke and Vivek Kumbhari are developing micro-robots small enough to travel through the human body, diagnosing ...

When Ph.D. student Kshitiz Parihar began combing through dozens of research papers on two seemingly different topics—tumor mechanics and extracellular vesicles, tiny packages of proteins and genetic ...

Robots are our future. We hear it all the time. Are you ready for teeny, tiny robots to be injected into your body in the name of healthcare? With research, trial and error, advancements in scientific ...

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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 ...