Gold nanowire nanorobots coated with a combination of two kinds of natural cell membranes might be used to fight bacterial infection, according to new work by researchers at the University of ...

Tuberculosis, a bacterial disease which predominantly affects the lungs, isn’t all that common a sight in the United States. On average, fewer than 10,000 cases are reported each year in a country ...

This article was updated May 2023. Nanotechnology has exploded in recent years establishing new and exciting applications. One of those applications is the development of nanoscale robots called ...

A nanobot is supposed to be a microscopic robot built in the nanometer scale. As a reference point, a human hair is about 100,000 nanometers wide. When we think of a robot, we think of something that ...

The buildup of bacteria deep in our teeth can cause infections in difficult-to-reach areas, and scientists at the Indian Institute of Science have developed a set of tiny cleaning robots they believe ...

Currently, there is no existing technology for nanoscale robots as depicted in science fiction works such as Michael Crichton's Prey. However, in medical nanotechnology, the term nanobot or nanorobot ...