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  • noun A very small robot capable of operating at the microscopic scale.

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  • Professor Behrad Khamesee, who led the team, states, "We have developed a magnetically levitated microrobot, which is a new technology for manipulation using flying microrobots.

    DailyTech News Feed 2009

  • (A short movie of the heart-powered microrobot in action can be downloaded here.)

    Disembodied Zombie Hearts as a Landscape Application 2008

  • A short movie of the heart-powered microrobot in action can be downloaded here.

    Archive 2008-02-01 2008

  • For example, the microrobot might deliver a payload of expandable glue to the site of a damaged cranial artery -- a procedure typically fraught with risk because posterior human brain arteries lay behind a complicated set of bends at the base of the skull beyond the reach of all but the most flexible catheters.

    Fantastic Voyage: Departure 2009 Emmet Cole 2007

  • James Friend wants your help naming the artery-traveling microrobot.

    Fantastic Voyage: Departure 2009 Emmet Cole 2007

  • View Slideshow An international team of scientists is developing what they say will be the world's first microrobot -- as wide as two human hairs -- that can swim through the arteries and digestive system.

    Fantastic Voyage: Departure 2009 Emmet Cole 2007

  • Israeli scientists announced last October that they were developing a microrobot that could travel through the spinal canal.

    Fantastic Voyage: Departure 2009 Emmet Cole 2007

  • With the six legs attached to the microrobot, CMU researchers want to give more control to camera operators, such as coming back to a suspected lesion.

    Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » The ‘Bugbot,’ a Robot with Six Legs and a Camera 2005

  • The screen before them displayed a live video transmission from a pinpoint camera mounted aboard the microrobot.

    Deception Point Dan Brown 2001

  • The screen before them displayed a live video transmission from a pinpoint camera mounted aboard the microrobot.

    Deception Point Brown, Dan, 1964- 2001

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  • the sequel to I Robot

    April 6, 2009