Check out these micro robots that Midn Eastman and Watson worked on with Prof. Piepmeier and Firebaugh (EE). The ultimate goal of the project is to have the robots play soccer in the Robocup Nanogram League. Here is a video of the through a microscope.
They are approximately 60 X 120 microns in size. The desig is refered to as a scratchdrive abd was build here at USNA. By varying the voltage on the playing surface the robots move along like an inchworm.
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