Researchers develop an ingestible origami robot that has demonstrated the ability to unfold and retrieve a button battery from a simulated stomach. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she ...

Getting to the root of the problem has never looked quite like this, medically speaking. Thanks to the latest innovation from the minds at MIT, there is now a tiny origami robot capable of performing ...

An international team of researchers has recently showcased a tiny origami robot that can be swallowed and controlled by external magnetic fields. According to Daniela Rus, an electrical engineering ...

This little guy is about to impress you. It’s able to fold itself, walk, swim, carry things and even degrade into nothingness. The little origami robot is cool. Made from a laser-cut, 1.7 cm-square ...

Imagine swallowing a tablet knowing it contains a robot that, when it enters your stomach, unfolds like origami and crawls its way around to heal where the ailment is. This could be the future of ...

A team of researchers from MIT, the Tokyo Institute of Technology, and the University of Sheffield have demonstrated that their origami robot is able to unfold from a swallowed capsule, transverse a ...

"Mom, I swallowed a doll hand." "That's OK, sweetie — this robot wrapped in pork casing will travel down your esophagus and into your stomach to safely push Barbie's hand through your body." YouTube ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Researchers at the Delft University of Technology have developed the smallest ever flow-driven motor from DNA that utilises electrical or salt gradients to generate mechanical energy. For the ...