Pub Date : 2026-01-30DOI: 10.1038/s41928-025-01561-5
Giovanni Traverso, Paul Sheehan, Ahmad Bahai, Robert Langer, Anantha Chandrakasan
Ingestible electronic devices could transform gastrointestinal medicine by combining diagnostic and therapeutic functions into a single miniature device. But challenges related to device miniaturization, power-efficient integrated circuit design and data security remain to be addressed.
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Pub Date : 2026-01-30DOI: 10.1038/s41928-025-01558-0
Shiyu Zhao
Enhancing the generality of multi-robot systems is critical for their deployment in open-world applications. Achieving this will require the development of general collective intelligence.
提高多机器人系统的通用性对其在开放世界应用中的部署至关重要。实现这一目标需要发展普遍的集体智慧。
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Pub Date : 2026-01-30DOI: 10.1038/s41928-026-01572-w
Robotics is our 2026 technology of the year.
机器人是我们2026年的年度科技。
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Pub Date : 2026-01-30DOI: 10.1038/s41928-025-01556-2
Oliver G. Schmidt, Vineeth K. Bandari, John S. McCaskill
Microscopic robots (microrobots) with integrated electronic chips have a range of potential medical, environmental and industrial applications. However, such systems have only recently become mass-producible, using either a body-first or a brain-first approach to fabrication.
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Pub Date : 2026-01-22DOI: 10.1038/s41928-026-01565-9
Matthew Parker
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Pub Date : 2026-01-21DOI: 10.1038/s41928-025-01464-5
Luca Nessi, Riccardo Comin
Magnetic anisotropy in multiferroic van der Waals heterostructures can be electrically controlled, providing non-volatile and low-power operations driven by ferroelectric switching.
多铁范德华异质结构中的磁各向异性可以通过电气控制,提供由铁电开关驱动的非易失性和低功耗操作。
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