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Software And Communication At Micro Scale
- Engineers shrank software into a single condensed instruction to fit tiny memory constraints.
- Robots communicate via observable motion patterns that are read optically under a microscope.
Practical Uses And Swarm Economics
- Potential applications include monitoring cells or assembling tiny devices inside fluids.
- The low cost and programmability make large swarms practical for many tasks.
Limits Aren't Final In Miniaturization
- This milestone follows decades of efforts to make autonomous devices below one millimeter.
- Breakthroughs often come from overcoming assumed limits, so further miniaturization may continue.