Engineers at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., announced they have created what they believe is "the smallest-ever remote-controlled walking robot." The robot resembles a tiny crab and ...

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 ...

(CNN) — For these tiny robotic crabs, being small is a virtue. Engineers at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, invented the world’s smallest remote-controlled walking robot, according to ...

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. These tiny machines can bend, twist, crawl, walk, turn and jump without ...

If it wasn’t bad enough that robots are going to take over humanity one day, let’s just go ahead and make them smaller before they do. But we can’t just make them smaller, we need to give them ...

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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 ...