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Tiny
robots flex their muscles
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Researchers
in Sweden have built robotic arms two-thirds
of a millimeter long that work in salt water.
These microrobots are designed to snatch blood
cells, bacterium and other organisms from
fluid samples. They could be precursors to
a class of microscopic devices that perform
tests and procedures inside the human body;
they could also be put to use building other
microdevices on tiny assembly lines. Full
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