With all the doom and gloom over the inevitable robot apocalypse, we’ve at least been able to take solace in the fact that we’ll see them coming—until today. Researchers from Northwestern University ...

Researchers at Northwestern University in Illinois have demonstrated the world's smallest remote-controlled walking robot, at just half a millimeter wide. Such tiny machines can bend, twist, crawl, ...

Engineers have developed the smallest-ever remote-controlled walking robot -- and it comes in the form of a tiny, adorable peekytoe crab. Just a half-millimeter wide, the tiny crabs can bend, twist, ...

A study on the new robots titled "Submillimeter-scale multimaterial terrestrial robots" has been published in the journal Science Robotics. Exploratory research by engineers from Northwestern ...

Northwestern Engineering researchers have developed the smallest-ever remote-controlled walking robot — and it comes in the form of a tiny, adorable peekytoe crab. Just a half-millimeter wide, the ...

A half-millimeter size robo-flea standing on the edge of a coin (Northwestern University) (CN) — It’s the stuff of science fiction movies — or perhaps nightmares. Engineers at Northwestern University ...

Northwestern University engineers have developed the smallest-ever remote-controlled walking robot — and it comes in the form of a tiny, adorable peekytoe crab. Just a half-millimeter wide, the tiny ...

What just happened? Researchers from Northwestern University have created the world's smallest remote-controlled walking robot. Modeled after a peekytoe crab, it measures just half a millimeter wide ...

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Thanks to the engineers at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, the world's smallest remote-controlled walking robots were just invented. According to their research published online in the ...