Microrobots may become an effective tool in breaking down the dangerous blood vessel blockages that cause strokes. But these ...

A remote-controlled robot the size of a grain of sand can swim through blood vessels to deliver drugs before dissolving into ...

WAYZATA, Minn. — Finding and solving water quality problems in the Land of 10,000 Lakes may soon have a new, lower-cost helper — an aquatic robot — that has been designed by and is undergoing tests at ...

NASA tests small underwater robots designed to explore icy moons' hidden oceans. The prototype called SWIM, which stands for Sensing With Independent Micro-swimmers, was constructed at NASA's Jet ...

Researchers have developed a self-powered 'bug' that can skim across the water, and they hope it will revolutionize aquatic robotics. Researchers at Binghamton University, State University of New York ...

A research team has developed a fully biodegradable, edible aquatic robot capable of monitoring water environments and safely decomposing without leaving behind waste—an innovation that merges soft ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Building robots that can effortlessly mimic the movements of insects on water has been a persistent challenge in robotics. The ability to move autonomously and efficiently in ...

This little bot is the Aquapod from the University of Minnesota’s Center for Distributed Robotics. Aquapod’s designed to tumble on land and at the bottoms of bodies of water like some species of ...