A butterfly’s curling feeding tube has inspired scientists to create tiny ceramic scrolls that can rapidly roll and unroll ...

Tiny machines built from individual molecules are moving from science fiction into working hardware, promising to reshape medicine, manufacturing, and even computing. Instead of gears and pistons, ...

Nanoactuators are nanoscale devices that convert energy into motion or mechanical work. They are the tiny machines that drive movement and actuation at the nanoscale, enabling precise control and ...

Does size matter? Not with these mini machines! If you’re considering a new business venture, I challenge you to think “small” with these 9 small machines that make money. These machines may look ...

A robot made of Lego can quickly perform an important step for creating machines made of DNA. “This started as a final project in an undergraduate lab course,” says Rizal Hariadi at Arizona State ...

As arcades become more and more rare, plenty of pinball enthusiasts are moving these intricate machines to their home collections in basements, garages, and guest rooms. But if you’re not fortunate ...

All-electric machines once again dominated this year’s triennial IPF exhibition in Tokyo, but hydraulics were not entirely absent from the show floor. Shown were direct-clamped presses that featured ...

All of the machine language stuff coming out lately doesn’t affect you if you are developing with embedded microcontrollers, right? Perhaps not. Microsoft Research India wants you to use their EdgeML ...