Remember back in the old days, when nano-scale motors were a clunky 500 nanometers across? That record was subsequently broken with a 200-nanometer model, but has now been broken again, by a motor ...

Rotary engines are already known for their high RPM; the smaller they get, the higher they tend to rev. So what happens when the world’s smallest rotary engine gets put to the test? Well, 30,000 RPM ...

image: A research team from Empa and EPFL has developed a molecular motor which consists of only 16 atoms and rotates reliably in one direction. It could allow energy harvesting at the atomic level.

(Nanowerk News) A research team from Empa and EPFL has developed a molecular motor which consists of only 16 atoms and rotates reliably in one direction. It could allow energy harvesting at the atomic ...

Berkeley - Only 15 years after University of California, Berkeley, engineers built the first micro-scale motor, a UC Berkeley physicist has created the first nano-scale motor - a gold rotor on a ...

It’s a truism that technology is always shrinking and getting more compact. This, however, might be something else altogether. Previously the world’s smallest electronic motor was a microscopic 200 ...

A tiny motor, so small it could ride on the back of a virus, has been created by U.S. scientists in an achievement that will help advance the frontiers of nanotechnology. At team led by Dr Alex Zettl ...

Last year scientists announced they had made the smallest car ever, a molecule-sized vehicle that rolled on tiny wheels. But what good is a car without a motor? In another feat in the effort to truly ...

Within a few decades, a surgeon may be able to make a tiny incision in a patient's artery and insert a miniature robot that would scoot along through the blood vessel to the area of concern. The ...