Microbots

Oncologist Daniel Kraft spoke of the potential for technology and medicine to fuse in a near future in which treatments are tailored to individual genetics and "microbots" regulate immune systems and clear clogged arteries. ❋ Unknown (2010)

You know, let's do eye surgery by putting nanobots or microbots into your eye to do something a surgeon's big fingers could never do. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Other notable downloads include the scary heart attack, Gumby and Pokey from the old American clay animated series, microbots, Plankton (Spongebob's arch nemesis), Rosie robot from the Jetsons and many more. wood engraver papercrafts comments ❋ Michael James (2008)

What happens when smart dust watches everything we do, scanning technologies monitor what we think and microbots will take action? ❋ Michael (2009)

At the patch of pavement loftily called a "spaceport," a robotic lunar lander, a fraction of the size of the ancient lunar excursion module that had once transported humans to the Moon, was being offloaded by stevedore microbots. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Link It reminds me of UC Berkeley telerobotics pioneer John Canny's idea that thousands of microbots gobbling up dust particles would make a more practical and efficient "robot maid" than Rosie from the Jetsons! ❋ Unknown (2001)

Discovery magazine had run a cover story in May 1997 on microbots, featuring both “flying” and “swimming” models. ❋ Dan Brown (2001)

Miniature dragonflies, as it turned out, were the ideal prototype for these agile and efficient flying microbots. ❋ Dan Brown (2001)

Now, however, advances in nanotechnology, lightweight energy-absorbent materials, and micromechanics had made the flying microbots a reality. ❋ Dan Brown (2001)