Tiny robots with giant potential Paul McEuen and Marc Miskin

Take a trip down the microworld as roboticists Paul McEuen and Marc Miskin explain how they design and mass-produce microrobots the size of a single cell, powered by atomically thin legs — and show how these machines could one day be “piloted” to battle crop diseases or study your brain at the level of individual neurons.

This talk was presented at a TED Institute event given in partnership with The Kavli Foundation, the Simons Foundation and the National Academy of Sciences. TED editors featured it among our selections on the home page. Read more about the TED Institute.

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