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World’s Smallest Programmable Robot Fits on a Fingerprint Ridge and Carries Its Own Computer

Measuring just 200 by 300 by 50 micrometers — smaller than a grain of salt and roughly the size of a single-celled paramecium ...
Science Daily

Scientists create robots smaller than a grain of salt that can think

Researchers have created microscopic robots so small they’re barely visible, yet smart enough to sense, decide, and move completely on their own. Powered by light and equipped with tiny computers, the ...

Microscopic Robots That Swim Think and Act on Their Own

Scientists have built microscopic, light-powered robots that can think, swim, and operate independently at the scale of ...

Tiny robots swim, sense, and report temperature through small movements

Tiny robots smaller than cells can swim, sense surroundings, and decode temperature through miniature dance-like movements ...

Scientists create robots smaller than a grain of sand

Building robots that operate independently at sizes below one millimeter is incredibly difficult,” says roboticist Marc ...
CNET

These Tiny Robots Are Smaller Than Grains of Salt and Can Think, Move and Swim

Despite their size, the robots can navigate liquids, respond to their environment and operate without external control.

Researchers build world's smallest autonomous robots

In a joint advance from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan, engineers have designed the smallest fully programmable autonomous robots ever built – ...
Dexerto

Scientists build the world’s smallest robot and it actually thinks

Scientists have created robots smaller than a grain of salt that can sense their surroundings, make decisions, and move ...
Decrypt

Scientists Crammed a Computer Into a Robot the Size of a Grain of Salt

Researchers built autonomous robots the size of salt grains—with onboard computers, sensors, and motors that think and swim ...