Scientists at The University of Manchester have created the world’s first ‘molecular robot’ that is capable of performing basic tasks including building other molecules. The tiny robots, which are a ...

Last week was a big week for shape shifters. In Japan, researchers at Tohoku University and Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology announced that it had successful developed a ...

The current project conducts the following ethical and social research in together with a research community of molecular robots whose working principle is the same as living organisms composed of ...

Imagine mixing together some simple molecules and, after waiting for a short time, finding that you had made a supercomputer, a molecular robot or a sophisticated nanoelectromechanical device.

This short video explains a new method of using DNA to control molecular robots. Molecules swarm like a flock of birds, showing different patterns of movement when the method is applied.

By building on DNA origami, a method for programming DNA to self-assemble into nanoscale shapes, Shih plans to manufacture bigger and more complex molecular robots and to deliver DNA origami cancer ...

says Otger Campàs, a professor at Max Planck Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics ... As a collective, the robots behaved like a material that could change shape and switch between solid ...

Otger Campàs, a professor at Max Planck Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics, told Ars Technica that the team was inspired by tissues in embryos to try and design robots with similar ...