Pneumonia is a common lung affliction. While a range of things can cause pneumonia, one of the most common include bacterial infections. These bacterial infections are especially common, and worrisome ...

In the fast-paced world of medical innovation, the development of programmable microbots is emerging as a revolutionary force ...

Engineers at the University of Colorado­—Boulder have designed a new type of “microbot,” which has to potential to revolutionized treatment for various health conditions, including interstitial ...

In the evolving realm of medical science, the rise of tiny autonomous robots is nothing short of revolutionary. As medical ...

Google’s chief engineer and notable futurist Ray Kurzweil has said that nanobots or microbots will flow through our bodies by 2030. While the technology could be life-changing, the prospects for these ...

Vibrating tiny robots could revolutionize research. Individual robots can work collectively as swarms to create major advances in everything from construction to surveillance, but microrobots’ small ...

Robotics researchers often turn to the Japanese paper folding art of origami for inspiration, and with some very impressive results. Scientists working in the field at the University of Michigan have ...

They’re tiny, rectangular and can do backflips on rough terrain. Side flips, too. They’re polymer and metal microbots, and the hope is the teeny devices will one day transport drugs inside the human ...

The future of medicine is going to be hand-delivered — but not by mail carriers. Instead, life-saving drugs will be parceled, smuggled, and transported in the body via tiny, self-propelled microbots.

Brushing and flossing your teeth may become a hands-off routine in the not-too-distant future, if researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have anything to say about it. A team of engineers and ...

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 ...

Tired of brushing your own teeth twice per day? Science might have a solution for you: tiny, shapeshifting microbots for your mouth. That's the focus of a new study from researchers at the University ...