Biology Meets Microchips to Make Tiny Robots
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Rat cells grown onto microscopic silicon chips worked as tiny robots, perhaps a first step toward a self-assembling device, researchers working in the United States reported on Sunday.
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Several research teams are developing robots made of smart building blocks that can morph into different forms to perform a broad variety of tasks. The bots are to be used in space missions and in search-and-rescue efforts. By Lakshmi Sandhana.
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For decades, computer performance has been driven largely by the increasing numbers of ever-smaller transistors squeezed into the machines' silicon brains. With each generation, speeds jumped and prices dropped.
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A reconfigurable handheld device could foster a community of hardware hackers.
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EPSON HAS ANNOUNCED that it has developed a successor to the FR  the world&#39;s smallest and lightest micro-flying robot. The FR-II uses micromechatronics technology, and features Bluetooth wireless control and independent flight. It&#39;ll go on show at the ...
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IBM Corp. researchers are touting one of the tiniest pieces of art ever made &#151; an image of the sun made from 20,000 microscopic particles of gold. The precision required is a breakthrough that heralds ultra-miniature sensors, lenses and wires inside nanoscale circuits of the future.
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Shared research produces fast, tiny memory ideal for consumer devices.
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The blueprint for a tiny ultra rugged mechanical computer has been inspired by ideas put forward 200 years ago.
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The future of robotics may involve teams of small, cooperating droids.
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Anisotropy--there's a word you don't hear everyday. It's the focus of IBM research published this week that could result in incredibly tiny computers.
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From production plant to pharmacy, some of the most sought-after drugs will now be tracked by the technology in tiny microchips. It&#39;s already getting the green light from law enforcement.
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Scientists develop a device thousands of times smaller than a human hair that can turn radio waves into sound.
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Researchers find way to make tiny structures emit different wavelengths of light.
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Carrying out logic operations with fluids rather than electricity could lead to labs-on-a-chip that don't need electronic control circuits.
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MIT researchers have developed a new ultralow-voltage chip that could improve the energy efficiency of low-power electronics tenfold.
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A conglomerate of Japanese companies hopes to develop biochips.
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Researchers create three-dimensional structures using DNA-directed assembly.