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World’s smallest programmable robot fits on a fingerprint ridge and carries its own computer

For nearly half a century, the dream of microscopic robotics has felt tantalizingly close, yet perpetually out of reach. We ...

Scientists create robots smaller than a grain of sand

These are the smallest programmable autonomous robots that I have seen,” said Kevin Chen, an MIT roboticist who wasn’t ...
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Scientists Crammed a Computer Into a Robot the Size of a Grain of Salt

Researchers built autonomous robots the size of salt grains—with onboard computers, sensors, and motors that think and swim ...