Researchers use magnetic nanoparticles and liquid-handling robots in an effort to detect COVID-19 outbreaks early.

Researchers turned white blood cells called neutrophils into drug-smuggling “neutrobots,” which penetrated the blood-brain barrier to treat brain cancer in mice.

Researchers are engineering microbes to deliver therapeutics specifically to tumors, maximizing the treatments’ efficacy while minimizing side effects.

Autonomous, living microrobots that seek and destroy cancer are not as futuristic as one might imagine, thanks to a fusion of robotics and synthetic biology.

This fish-inspired robot swims at greater speeds than previous ones.

See a tiny, jellyfish-like robot swim, burrow, and carry beads.

Developers made an insect-like robot with two pairs of wings.

Scientists create a soft-bodied robotic fish that pumps synthetic blood and swims on its own.

The Carnegie Mellon computational biologist thinks machine learning algorithms can direct high-throughput experiments to solve the field’s unanswered questions.

Robots integrated into groups of zebrafish and of one-day-old honey bees allow the two species to influence each other’s behavior.

From 500-million-year-old fat to a newly discovered virus, here are some stunners from The Scientist in 2018.

A bioinspired robot helps researchers study insect flight.

Scientists who designed a marine robot to survey ocean life were inspired by eel larvae.

The devices, which could one day treat children with esophageal atresia and short bowel, were recently tested in pigs.

Scientists engineered biomaterials similar to those chameleons use to change color and applied them to a robot.

The artificially motorized cells may one day help fight cancers in the female reproductive tract.

Magpie-larks trick rivals with solo “duets” to defend territory.

Autonomous molecules that collect, carry, and sort different genetic packages usher in a new era for nucleic-acid robotics. 

Rather than attempting to recreate an insect's dynamic agility with robotics, scientists have created a hybrid that's part dragonfly, part robot.