{"id":232505,"date":"2026-03-03T22:03:58","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T04:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/swarming-spinning-microrobots-can-manipulate-their-surroundings"},"modified":"2026-03-03T22:03:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T04:03:58","slug":"swarming-spinning-microrobots-can-manipulate-their-surroundings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/swarming-spinning-microrobots-can-manipulate-their-surroundings","title":{"rendered":"Swarming, spinning microrobots can manipulate their surroundings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/swarming-spinning-microrobots-can-manipulate-their-surroundings.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>E pluribus unum \u2013 \u201cout of many, one\u201d \u2013 is not only a motto for the United States. It\u2019s a good credo for microrobots.<\/p>\n<p>A research collaboration between Cornell and the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems has shown how a swarm of microrobots spinning on a water surface can together generate the fluidic torque needed to manipulate passive structures without any physical contact.<\/p>\n<p>This collective behavior was demonstrated to operate gears and move objects, with the aim of eventually performing microscale tasks and biomedical procedures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>E pluribus unum \u2013 \u201cout of many, one\u201d \u2013 is not only a motto for the United States. It\u2019s a good credo for microrobots. A research collaboration between Cornell and the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems has shown how a swarm of microrobots spinning on a water surface can together generate the fluidic torque [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}