Tiny robots with giant potential

Name: Tiny robots with giant potential
Uploaded: 2020-02-04T15:58:48Z
Duration: 13 min 1 s
Description: Take a trip down the microworld as roboticists Paul McEuen and Marc Miskin explain how they design and mass-produce microrobots the size of a single cell, powered by atomically thin legs -- and show how these machines could one day be "piloted" to battle crop diseases or study your brain at the level of individual neurons.

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Paul McEuen and Marc Miskin |

TED@NAS

• November 2019

Take a trip down the microworld as roboticists Paul McEuen and Marc Miskin explain how they design and mass-produce microrobots the size of a single cell, powered by atomically thin legs -- and show how these machines could one day be "piloted" to battle crop diseases or study your brain at the level of individual neurons.