The capability to observe and manipulate matter at the nanoscale has advanced significantly since Richard Feynman first envisioned atomically precise manufacturing. Nano-manipulation technologies now ...

A tiny, soft, flexible robot that can crawl through earthquake rubble to find trapped victims or travel inside the human body to deliver medicine may seem like science fiction, but an international ...

"The biggest challenge really was to make it smart," said Cheng, co-corresponding author of the team's study published in Nano-Micro Letters. "For most applications, soft robotics have been a one-way ...