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 robots swim by manipulating electric fields rather than using moving parts.

Robotics combines computer science, engineering, and technology to design, construct, and utilize machines that are programmed to replicate or substitute human actions and decision-making. These machines, known as robots, are deployed across a broad ...

For many people, the word robot still conjures up images of an all-knowing, all-capable, all-metal machine shaped approximately like a human being. The image, of course, comes largely from the imaginations of folks who write books and direct movies.

(Yicai) Dec. 23 -- Fourier's recently launched six-axis force sensor for humanoid robots will be priced at just half of what other such products on the market cost, according to an insider close to the leading Chinese general-purpose robotics company.