Remote control Schematic showing (top panel) how microfibrebots can anchor to a blood vessel, navigate via helical propulsion, elongate to pass through narrow regions and aggregate to block blood flow ...

Researchers have created magnetically-controlled "sperm bots" that they can pilot around and monitor in real time. These tiny microrobots are bull sperm cells coated in magnetic nanoparticles.

Free-swimming bacteria are some of the peskiest water pollutants around. They can travel and spread very quickly. They also form films, adhering to the inner walls of tanks and pipes; in this state, ...

In medical treatment, getting a drug to the proper location in the body can be as important as administering the right drug. Scientists have tinkered with various micro-robots that could be moved ...

(Nanowerk News) For decades, researchers have sought to emulate the collective behavior of natural systems like schools of fish or flocks of birds using synthetic microscale robots. Such robot ...

A team of scientists in the Physical Intelligence Department at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems have combined robotics with biology by equipping E. coli bacteria with artificial ...

Stem cell microbots travel from nose to brain to treat disease By Michael Irving November 22, 2021 Some day, microbots made of stem cells could be delivered through the nose into the brain to treat ...

Biological microbots made from bubbles have been tracked moving inside the brain of a living mouse as they were steered by ultrasound. “While the mouse is under the microscope, we can see the small ...