Name: Tiny robots with giant potential
Uploaded: 2020-02-04T15:58:48Z
Duration: 13 min 1 s
Description: Take a trip down the microworld as roboticists Paul McEuen and Marc Miskin explain how they design and mass-produce microrobots the size of a single cell, powered by atomically thin legs -- and show how these machines could one day be "piloted" to battle crop diseases or study your brain at the level of individual neurons.

Take a trip down the microworld as roboticists Paul McEuen and Marc Miskin explain how they design and mass-produce microrobots the size of a single cell, powered by atomically thin legs -- and show how these machines could one day be "piloted" to battle crop diseases or study your brain at the level of individual neurons.

Paul McEuen and Marc Miskin: Tiny robots with giant potential

Tiny robots with giant potential

Emerging microrobot technology, leveraging nature's blueprint, promises to revolutionize our interaction with the microscopic world.

Cell-sized robots, powered by atomically thin legs, aim to transform medical diagnostics and environmental monitoring at a nominal cost.

The future could see these microrobots navigating our bodies to detect diseases or enhance crop protection, marking a new era of innovation.