Microorganisms, such as bacteria and sperm, can undergo adaptive shape morphing to optimize their locomotion mechanisms in the environment, which enables them to navigate complex barriers and improve ...

Could a robot smaller than a microorganism actually think on its own? Well, scientists from the University of Pennsylvania ...

(Nanowerk News) Artificial helical microswimmers with shape-morphing capabilities and adaptive locomotion are promising for precision medicine and noninvasive surgery. However, current fabrication ...

Microswimmers often need to independently navigate narrow environments like microchannels through porous media or blood vessels. The swimmers can be of biological origin, like algae or bacteria, but ...

Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research develop organic microparticles that can steer through biological fluids and ...

Autonomous microswimmers use optical signals to measure temperature as they move, enabling precise thermal mapping in fluid environments without external guidance or contact. (Nanowerk Spotlight) ...

Schematic illustration of highly efficient fabrication of stimuli-responsive microhelix based on the rotary holographic processing method. The adaptive locomotion of shape-morphing helical ...

Autonomous optimal navigation of microswimmers is in fact possible, as researchers have recently shown. In contrast to the targeted navigation of boats, the motion of swimmers at the microscale is ...

How do particles move in turbulent fluids? The answer to this question can be found in a new model presented in a thesis from the University of Gothenburg. The model could help speed up the ...