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11.22.09

The World's Smallest Robot

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By Rena Marie Pacella Posted 11.22.2005 at 2:00 am 0 Comments

Dartmouth College researchers have created a robot so small that 200 of them could fit on the tip of your finger. The tiny machine crawls like an inchworm across a grid at the breakneck speed of 200 microns per second. Its goal: to fix really little things. Dartmouth engineer Bruce Donald says swarms of such devices could one day repair circuitry in computer chips.

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