Microrobot

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What Does Microrobot Mean?

A microrobot is a very small robot built to do specific tasks. In general, a microrobot is just a bit larger than a nanorobot, which is created on the nanoscale. Microrobots are usually visible, whereas some nanobots are not immediately visible to the human eye.

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Techopedia Explains Microrobot

Modern technology has allowed engineers to put computer components into extremely small robots, which are used in many industries for different purposes. One example is in medicine, where a microrobot may assist with clinical goals such as diagnostics or surgeries. Scientists have acknowledged the many potential uses of microrobots in the medical and heath-care industry. For example, because of their small size, microrobots can be placed inside the body for diagnostic or biopsy purposes, replacing very invasive tubes such as an endoscope. In manufacturing industries, microrobots can be built as autonomous objects or in swarms that feature machine-to-machine learning protocols that allow them to operate as groups.

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Margaret Rouse
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Margaret is an award-winning writer and educator known for her ability to explain complex technical topics to a non-technical business audience. Over the past twenty years, her IT definitions have been published by Que in an encyclopedia of technology terms and cited in articles in the New York Times, Time Magazine, USA Today, ZDNet, PC Magazine, and Discovery Magazine. She joined Techopedia in 2011. Margaret’s idea of ??a fun day is to help IT and business professionals to learn to speak each other’s highly specialized languages.

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