Millimeter-scale Computing
Developing StiMote, a wireless neural stimulator for restoring vision
The highly collaborative project will leverage many tiny sensing computers, called “motes,” to communicate with the visual cortex of the brain.This tiny swimming robot can think for itself
With the help of the Michigan Micro Mote, researchers at U. Pennsylvania have developed programmable microscopic autonomous robots. David Blaauw and Dennis Sylvester were collaborators on the paper presented at an American Physical Society meeting in March 2024.$900,000 Awarded to Optimize Graphene Energy Harvesting Devices
Prof. David Blaauw is part of University of Arkansas research project that's working to develop graphene energy harvesters. Blaauw will oversee fabrication of the “Michigan Micro-Mote” sensors custom designed for seamless integration with each type of graphene power harvester.Olivia Lee awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship for brain-machine interfaces that could improve control of robotic prostheses
Lee designs implantable and wearable electronics to help restore movement to those who have lost limbs or have been paralyzed.These Tiny Sensors Are Saving Snails
This video shows how the Michigan team's tiny computers (called the Michigan Micro Mote) are being used for conservation efforts for even small invertebrates.Tiny sensor used to track the migratory patterns of monarch butterflies
ECE alumnus and now U Pittsburgh professor Inhee Lee talks about a now multi-institutional collaboration involving U-M, the M3 and the monarch butterfly.Tiny snail computers
Michigan Radio talks about innovative technology that came out of ECE and EEB to help figure out what’s killing tiny snails.Snail Computers
Prof. David Blaauw talks with BYUradio about the Michigan Micro Mote and how it helped solve a snail mass extinction mystery.Tiny computers mounted on snail shells helped reveal how one species escaped extinction
In this feature story, CBC showcases the new study done by ECE and EEB researchers using the Michigan Micro Mote to learn how some snails use sunlight to hide from invasive predatorsA tribal chief
CBC's "As It Happens" interviewed U-M EEB researcher Cindy Bick on how snails & the world's smallest computer helped solve a Tahitian mass extinction mystery w/ a suspect “wolf in snail’s clothing” & how sunshine and white shells saved the day (starts at 21:10)How Do You Solve an Extinction Mystery? Put a Tiny Computer on a Snail.
The New York Times features the Michigan Micro Mote and how it helped solve a mass extinction snail survivor mystery.Snail Survivors (The Poetry of Science)
UK author of the blog "The Poetry of Science" wrote a poem called Snail Survivors about the research collaboration between developers of the world's smallest computer and biologists.World's smallest computer helps solve mystery of snail species survival
This partnership between biologists and engineers yields scientific insights into a surviving species of Tahitian tree snails, while also proving the viability for very small animal studies using the Michigan Micro Mote.Snails carrying the world's smallest computer help solve mass extinction survivor mystery
Entrepreneur Dr. Scott Hanson awarded 2020 ECE Alumni Rising Star Award
Tracking Monarch Butterfly Migration with the World’s Smallest Computer-Pittsburgh
The University of Pittsburgh highlights the contribution of Inhee Lee, an ECE alum, in the project using Michigan Micro Motes to track monarch butterfly migration.Tracking monarch butterfly migration with the world's smallest computer
Phys.org re-publishes our piece on how researchers from ECE and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology are using the Michigan Micro Mote to track monarch migration in unprecedented ways.Tracking Monarch Butterfly Migration with the World’s Smallest Computer
Monarch Conservation Spotlight: M3 Monarch Migration Study
The “Monarch Conservation Spotlight” series highlights impactful projects, programs and organizations working hard to address the declining trend across North American monarch populations, including those involved in a project to track Monarch butterflies: Professors David Blaauw, Hun-Seok Kim, InHee Lee, and Andre Green.David Blaauw named Kensall D. Wise Collegiate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Two ‘U’ researchers receive Distinguished University Innovator Award
The Michigan Daily profiles Professors David Blaauw and Dennis Sylvester, who are this year’s recipients of the 2019 Distinguished University Innovator Award.A high-efficiency GaAs solar cell to power the Internet of Tiny Things
Communicating with the world’s smallest computers
University of Michigan team creates an even smaller world’s smallest ‘computer
Computer the size of a speck of dust created at University of Michigan
The Smallest Computer in the World Fits On a Grain of Rice
The University of Michigan just defeated IBM in creating this tiny computing device designed by ECE Professors David Blaauw and Dennis Sylvester.The Smallest Computer in the World Fits On a Grain of Rice
The University of Michigan just defeated IBM in creating this tiny computing device.An even smaller world’s smallest ‘computer’
Seed-sized U-M computers pumped into oil wells featured at the Houston Museum of Natural Science
Michigan’s millimeter-scale computers featured at ISSCC2017, and in IEEE Spectrum
Alum startup wins $25,000 at Accelerate Michigan Competition
Injectable computers
MBus is the missing interconnect for millimeter-scale systems
This is the world's smallest computer
Computers used to consume whole rooms, but now one computer can fit on the edge of a nickel. At just one millimeter cubed, the Michigan Micro Mote (M^3) is the smallest autonomous computer in the world.Michigan Micro Mote (M3) makes history as the world’s smallest computer
A brief history of what led to the technical feat known as the Michigan Micro Mote, a tiny speck of a computer that does it all.These Energy-Saving, Batteryless Chips Could Soon Power The Internet Of Things
Leaders in ultra low power cicuits and systems presenting at VLSI Circuits Symposium
Making smart dust a reality
Researchers unveil first mm-scale computing system
Researchers at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference in San Francisco demonstrate a prototype implantable eye pressure monitor and a tiny new radio.Toward computers that fit on a pen tip: New technologies usher in the millimeter-scale computing era
Paving the way for ubiquitous computing
Millimeter-scale, energy-harvesting sensor system developed
Microchip sets low-power record with extreme sleep mode
The Phoenix Processor uses 30,000 times less power in sleep mode and 10 times less in active mode than comparable chips now on the market.