microrobot

Professor Behrad Khamesee, who led the team, states, "We have developed a magnetically levitated microrobot, which is a new technology for manipulation using flying microrobots.

DailyTech News Feed 2009

(A short movie of the heart-powered microrobot in action can be downloaded here.)

Disembodied Zombie Hearts as a Landscape Application 2008

A short movie of the heart-powered microrobot in action can be downloaded here.

Archive 2008-02-01 2008

For example, the microrobot might deliver a payload of expandable glue to the site of a damaged cranial artery -- a procedure typically fraught with risk because posterior human brain arteries lay behind a complicated set of bends at the base of the skull beyond the reach of all but the most flexible catheters.

Fantastic Voyage: Departure 2009 Emmet Cole 2007

James Friend wants your help naming the artery-traveling microrobot.

Fantastic Voyage: Departure 2009 Emmet Cole 2007

View Slideshow An international team of scientists is developing what they say will be the world's first microrobot -- as wide as two human hairs -- that can swim through the arteries and digestive system.

Fantastic Voyage: Departure 2009 Emmet Cole 2007

Israeli scientists announced last October that they were developing a microrobot that could travel through the spinal canal.

Fantastic Voyage: Departure 2009 Emmet Cole 2007

With the six legs attached to the microrobot, CMU researchers want to give more control to camera operators, such as coming back to a suspected lesion.

Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » The ‘Bugbot,’ a Robot with Six Legs and a Camera 2005

The screen before them displayed a live video transmission from a pinpoint camera mounted aboard the microrobot.

Deception Point Dan Brown 2001

The screen before them displayed a live video transmission from a pinpoint camera mounted aboard the microrobot.

Deception Point Brown, Dan, 1964- 2001