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Adamatzky goes on to say that the long term goal is to use Plasmobots to “assemble the components of micromachines.”

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Whether dealing with remote-controlled corpses, lethally malfunctioning micromachines, or cop-killer cyborgs, Section 9 is determined to serve and protect . . . and reboot some cybercrook ass!

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Since metals are less brittle than silicon, they promise more durable and perhaps more practical micromachines.

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The greatest advances may come in medicine, where micromachines could embark on a real-life fantastic voyage through the bloodstream.

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Creating your T-bone: While micromachines sound fantastic enough, to some scientists they are a mere way station on the road toward the ultimate discovery: a way to manipulate matter at the atomic level.

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SMALLER THAN THE PERIOD AT THE END OF THIS LINE. So far, micromachines do little more than spin around and mystify passing mites.

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Whatever they do, many micromachines will need a motor.

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Last August Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry chose micromachines for its next big "national effort" and announced that it will pour 25 billion yen ($200 million) into a 10-year drive to research and develop industrial and medical microrobots.

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NSF and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency together spend all of $2.5 million a year on micromachines.

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The answers will depend on how micromachines wear, on how they react to forces that don't matter at larger scales.

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