Scientists have created “acoustic holograms” that can assemble matter into 3D objects, using just sound. The technique works with various types of particles and even living cells, allowing for a new ...

Robot collective Magnetic microrobot swarms act as motors to move millimetre-sized passive objects without physical contact. (Courtesy: MPI-IS) Strong viscous interactions exist in microscale systems, ...

Researchers at MIT are finding ways to make objects and buildings construct themselves, such as this rock-and-string structure MIT collaborated with ETH Zurich on display at the Chicago Biennial.

Researchers have commanded swarms of magnetic microrobots to manipulate, rotate, and assemble objects without ever making physical contact. Instead of physical contact, these 300-micrometer robots use ...

This research is due to be presented in August in Vancouver (Canada) at SIGGRAPH, the most important conference on computer graphics and interactive techniques where companies such as Nvidia, Disney ...

It's difficult to build devices that replicate the fluid, precise motion of humans, but that might change if we could pull a few (literal) strings. At least, that's the idea behind "cable-driven" ...