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Tiny Motors May Ease Road For Robotic Surgery

Posted January 20, 2009 8:41 AM

From BBC News | Science & Environment | UK Edition:

Surgical procedures could soon be helped along with tiny robots, according to researchers. Miniaturisation of motors has not kept pace with that of electronics, leaving such tiny robots with no means to get around in the body. Now, research reported in the Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering has demonstrated a motor about twice the size of a human hair.

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