(PhysOrg.com) -- UConn researchers say Spiroplasma's propulsion style is optimal for converting energy into motion. The kinky motion of a primitive spiral-shaped bacterium in fluid could help design ...

Scientists have shown the method to develop tiny, self-powered swimming micro-robots, and just from the use of three simple ingredients. The method involves combining oil drops with water containing a ...

Some of us might imagine robots to be big hulking contraptions of mass destruction, but one of the applications of robotics and science goes in the opposite direction, scaling down these objects so ...

Researchers from Tampere University in Finland and Anhui Jianzhu University in China have made a significant breakthrough in soft robotics. Their groundbreaking study introduces the first toroidal, ...

(Nanowerk News) When you’re just a few microns long, swimming can be difficult. At that size scale, the viscosity of water is more like that of honey, and momentum can’t be relied upon to maintain ...

Racing tiny mechanical swimmers against one another in a virtual environment should help scientists design medical micro-robots that can swim, wriggle or crawl more easily through the human body.