In a joint advance from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan, engineers have designed the smallest fully programmable autonomous robots ever built – ...

Scientists have unveiled the world’s smallest autonomous robots, marking a groundbreaking leap in microrobotics.

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Researchers at USTC in China turned to microwave-based error correction to achieve a distance-7 logical qubit, much like ...

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