One hundred years ago, it was easy to tell when something was a machine. Machines were “hard and clanky, metallic, and pretty heavy,” as developmental biologist Michael Levin tells Inverse. But lately ...

'Hexbug Nano v2' microbots use vibrations to propel themselves forward. By connecting several of these toys with an elastic silicon rubber chain, the resulting structure is 'elastoactive'. This means ...

Scientists have built tiny living robots from frog embryo cells that spontaneously grow their own functional nervous systems, a first-of-its-kind achievement in synthetic biology. The organisms, ...

A research team at Tohoku University and Future University Hakodate has demonstrated that living biological neurons can be trained to perform a supervised temporal pattern learning task previously ...

Rehovot, Israel — A group of scientists headed by Prof. Ehud Shapiro at the Weizmann Institute of Science has used biological molecules to create a tiny computer – a programmable two-state, two-symbol ...

Cyborg beetle: By equipping a giant flower beetle with a processor and implanting electrodes that deliver electrical jolts to its brain and to its wing muscles, scientists have created a living ...

A group of scientists headed by Prof. Ehud Shapiro at the Weizmann Institute of Science has used biological molecules to create a tiny computer – a programmable two-state, two-symbol finite automaton ...