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Scientists just built programmable robots the size of bacteria that can operate alone for months

The robot is hard to see without a microscope. It’s small enough to rest on the ridge of a fingerprint and can operate in ...
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Researchers create world's smallest programmable, autonomous robots

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and University of Michigan have created the world's smallest fully programmable ...
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Light powers the world's smallest programmable robot, at about 0.3 millimeters long

The robots are powered by tiny microcomputers developed by David Blaauw and Dennis Sylvester, engineers at the University of Michigan. Their processors run on just 75 nanowatts of power, around one ...