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Zitong Lan, Haowen Lai and Mingmin Zhao with a robot in a lab.

Robots that can see around corners using radio signals and AI

Doctoral students at Penn Engineering have built a new system, powered by AI and radio signals, that allows robots to view around corners, with implications for vehicle safety and industrial efficiency.

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Penn Engineering working on ‘world's smallest’ autonomous robots

Marc Miskin of the School of Engineering and Applied Science explains very small autonomous robots.

Penn researchers build microscopic robot that could one day transform medicine

Marc Miskin of the School of Engineering and Applied Science tells the story of a robot “smaller than a grain of salt, measuring less than one millimeter.”

Scientists taught robots to swim through mazes using Einstein’s relativity

Marc Miskin of the School of Engineering and Applied Science created "artificial space-time" to direct machines to travel in the same way that spacecraft or light does while crossing the universe.

Could these new tiny robots cure cancer?

“Researchers at Penn and the University of Michigan have developed the world’s smallest, fully autonomous robots. The health applications are nearly endless.”

This autonomous aquatic robot is smaller than a grain of salt

Mark Miskin of the School of Engineering and Applied Science comments on his and others' miniaturization of an autonomous robot 1/10,000th the size of a conventional robot.

A microscopic robot with onboard closed-loop control

Researchers in the School of Engineering and Applied Science fabricated a chip with photovoltaic cells for power, temperature sensors, control circuits for electrokinetic actuators, and an optical receiver for communication and programming, as well as processing and memory.

Scientists create robots smaller than a grain of sand

Researchers at Penn and the University of Michigan have created the world’s smallest, fully programmable, autonomous robots, packing significant capacities into a device smaller than a grain of salt.

Scientists create robot the size of a grain of salt that can dance and think

Marc Miskin led a team in the School of Engineering and Applied Science that developed the world’s smallest autonomous robot.

These tiny robots are smaller than grains of salt and can think, move and swim

Marc Miskin of the School of Engineering and Applied Science says the recently developed autonomous robots open a new scale for programmable robots.

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