UK tech company AUAR makes portable micro-factories that it says can produce the wooden frame of a house in a day.

A proprietary operating system allows AUAR to drastically simplify the building process, reducing thousands of production lines down to just a few. One way AUAR has rethought the standard homebuilding ...

Solving a technical challenge that has stymied science for 40 years, researchers have built a robot with an onboard computer, sensors and a motor, the whole assembly less than 1 millimeter in size — ...

Researchers at Penn and the University of Michigan have developed the world’s smallest, fully autonomous robots. The health ...

Learn about the materials and technologies powering untethered micro devices in healthcare, and discover the clinical applications in oncology and vascular disease.

Each robot costs less than a penny to produce and can make decisions based on its environment.

Bacteria-scale robots that can run for months without human control are no longer a lab fantasy. Researchers have now built fully programmable micro-machines, smaller than a grain of salt, that can ...

In a nutshell: Researchers have developed minuscule robots that can "assemble" and behave like a collective, building new shapes and tools. Inspired by nature, the team identified and developed the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Journalist, analyst, author, podcaster. This Phantom humanoid robot by Foundation is working in a factory. Some of them, however, ...