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Small Times says that a couple of California firms received a patent for micromanipulators which could pave the way for the smallest robots capable of manipulating large molecules and cells. Technology Innovations and Innovation On Demand, Inc. received the patent "Wireless Techniques for Microactivation" which uses focused directed energy beams for controlling tiny Nitinol wire microactuators. It sounds like the microactuators are controlled from an external energy source so the robots wouldn't be self contained, but tiny nano robots could become a reality. More micromanipulated articles to receive...
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