Researchers develop integrated optical phased array tweezers with the potential to revolutionize biological research.

Scientists have created a tiny chip that can manipulate cells and particles. MIT scientists have developed this tiny, ...

Researchers at MIT have developed a new kind of “tractor beam” that can move and manipulate tiny biological particles like ...

MIT researchers have developed a miniature, chip-based “tractor beam,” like the one that captures the Millennium Falcon in the film “Star Wars,” that could someday help bi ...

Scientists may have discovered how to create a real-life tractor beam using electromagnetic radiation that can draw particles toward it. The result is something very akin to the tractor beam seen ...

What advancements can be made to improve the efficiency and accuracy of studying worldwide diseases? This is what a recent study published in Nature Commun | Technology ...

This chip-based "tractor-beam," which uses an intensely focused beam of light to capture and manipulate biological particles without damaging the cells, could help biologists study the mechanisms of ...

Tractor beams have hit the big time. A newly constructed device generates a beam of concentrated sound that, for the first time, exerts a continuous, perceptible tug on objects large enough to see.

Finally our childhood dreams of a working tractor beam are coming to fruition! It’s called acoustic levitation and it actually uses highly concentrated sound waves to float small objects by ...

The tractor beam was able to move a hollow triangular object forward 1cm This was done with a device that exerted pressure using sound waves Device could have applications in treating cancer and ...

Oct. 3, 2024 — A chip-based 'tractor beam' can trap and manipulate biological particles using a tightly focused beam of light emitted from a silicon-photonics chip. The device could help ...

Don’t blame us for the click-baity titles in the source articles about this handheld “acoustic tractor beam”. You can see why the popular press tarted this one up a bit, even at the risk of ...