Scientists create robot the size of a grain of salt that can dance and think - Researchers say the record-breaking robot ...

These are the smallest programmable autonomous robots that I have seen,” said Kevin Chen, an MIT roboticist who wasn’t ...

Scientists have created robots smaller than a grain of salt that can sense their surroundings, make decisions, and move ...

When Ava’s robot loses power, she and Brooke turn lemons into batteries. When Ava’s robot loses power, she and friend Brooke turn lemons into batteries. Their experiment sparks questions about how ...

Medra, an artificial intelligence startup focused on drug discovery, has raised $52 million in early-stage funding to try to integrate powerful large language models with physical systems that can ...

Picture a robot controlled by micromotors so small and light that it suspends itself over water like a bug. With engineers at the University of Virginia, that’s now an achievable reality. With their ...

Roboticist Dennis Hong, 54, is a professor at the UCLA School of Engineering and director of RoMeLa (Robotics & Mechanisms ...

Researchers have developed a digital laboratory (dLab) system that fully automates the material synthesis and structural, physical property evaluation of thin-film samples. With dLab, the team can ...

Inside a UNC-Chapel Hill Science lab sits an autonomous robot. Imagine a machine like a Roomba, but with an arm, so it can pick up things like a dirty sock off the floor. A group of researchers from ...

Daniela Rus has spent her career breaking barriers—scientific, social, and material—in her quest to build machines that amplify rather than replace human capability. She made robotics her life’s work, ...

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (KRQE) – You may not know it, but thanks to materials scientists, our lives are a lot more convenient. One materials scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory said that tech is ...

Tony Dokoupil anchors the new "CBS Evening News" beginning Jan. 5, 2026. He previously served as co-host of "CBS Mornings" and anchored "The Uplift," a weekly series spotlighting positive and ...