Researchers build world's smallest mobile robot
The future applications for micro-electromechanical systems, or MEMS, include ensuring information security, such as assisting with network authentication and authorization; inspecting and making repairs to an integrated circuit; exploring hazardous environments, perhaps after a hazardous chemical explosion; or involving biotechnology, say to manipulate cells or tissues.
I can foresee nanotech resulting in not a few pathological nanophobes, constantly ill-at-ease knowing their bodies are being routinely penetrated by invisible machines. Some of us already have a debilitating fear of germs and contaminants (real or imaginary); wait until the "germs" become intelligent and subject to corruption.
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