Researchers from Massachusetts have recently created a groundbreaking output. The group has managed to develop an army of tiny walking robots made out of semiconductor components. Interestingly, the robots are not just for display--they can actually do things that are only imaginable in the movies. 

Have you seen the tiniest fully-functional robots?

If you're a fan of sci-fi movies, looking at robots may seem to be a simple idea for you. But, not for these researchers from Massachusetts, that just developed an army of tiny fully-functional robots. 

Allan Brooks and Michael Strano are scientists from Strano Research Group that announced the creation of the army of robots

As per Independent UK, the group successfully developed the first microscopic robots made out of semiconductor parts. For only a four-inch silicon piece, the group can create more than a million tiny robots. 

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"The authors' robots, although not autonomous in their current form, can be seen as a platform to which 'brains' and a battery can be attached," wrote scientists Allan M Brooks and Michael S Strano, who did not work in the study, in an article accompanying the announcement.

The robots can be controlled and walk with only the standard electronic signals and can be stimulated with lasers that allow them to walk in the distance.

Maybe what makes this experiment more awesome is that each robot's size is smaller than 0.1 mm-- or just as small as a width of a strand of hair. Their legs are also formed through electrochemical actuators in order to make it work. 

Researchers proudly share that these robots are only powered just by converting light into energy. 

So what does it do?

If you've watched the 2020 movie called Bloodshot starring Vin Diesel, you already have an idea of how these tiny robots function. Or how the scientists want them to function. 

The researchers from Massachusetts want their robots to make something more complex than just walking. Through that, they want to create technology that will allow their robots to enter a human body, and repair the human's broken organs-- just like a real-life surgeon.

For now, unfortunately, the study to make this happen is not yet near to its possibility. The group added that their robots cannot sense their environments, slower to move, and could only be controlled from the outside. 

At least, they got the robots now. 

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