UK scientists develop world’s first molecular robot

Posted on 3 Oct 2017 by Michael Cruickshank

A team of UK scientists has become the first in the world to build a functional robot able to work at a molecular scale.

An artist’s impression of the robot manipulating a molecule. Image courtesy of the University of Manchester. The team from the University of Manchester managed to build the minuscule robot which measures in at just a millionth of a millimeter. In spite of its small size, it is able to still carry…

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