For nearly half a century, the dream of microscopic robotics has felt tantalizingly close, yet perpetually out of reach. We have grown up on a diet of science fiction like Fantastic Voyage, imagining ...
Most people think of the waterfront as the edge of the city. A team of MIT researchers sees it as a dynamic, Lego-like ...
The world's smallest fully programmable, autonomous robots have debuted at the University of Pennsylvania, sporting a brain developed at the University of Michigan. These microscopic swimming machines ...
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Programmable CNC-hydrogel composites for soft robotics

A novel class of programmable, self-healing hydrogel nanocomposites has been developed by combining cellulose nanocrystals ...