Sentences with word «microbot»

Finally, the Bio-Specialist can heal squad mates, leaves a trail of alien face melting poison gas and can call in a swarm of microbots to weaken approaching enemies.

The flat, roughly dumbbell - shaped microbot is made of a polymer and has two magnetic ends.

«All - terrain microbot moves by tumbling over complex topography.»

Nanocapillary forces offer opportunities for assembling dynamically reconfigurable multifunctional materials that could find applications as micromanipulators, microbots with ultrasoft joints, or magnetically self - repairing gels.

Akin designed the living microbots to release their DNA packages inside mammalian cells, where the pH is low (acidic) enough to dissolve the chemical bonds gluing the luciferase gene to the bacteria.

This takes Kamen to the show's second segment, where he meets with researchers Sylvain Martel and Evan Shechter at Montréal Polytechnic School, who use MRI magnets to steer microbots (30 times smaller than Kratochvil's) designed to move throughout the body's circulatory system.

This week's episode focuses on developments in «microbot technology,» or efforts to create tiny machines that may someday heal the human body without the need for surgery.

Meanwhile, engineers at Technion, the Israel Institute of Technology, debuted Virob (video), a buglike microbot that needs no internal power source.

One critical factor in the development of such microbots is the effect of electrostatic and van der Waals forces between molecules that are prevalent on the scale of microns but not on the macroscale of everyday life.

Drug - delivery microbots might be used in conjunction with ultrasound to guide them to their destination in the body.

Microbots animated through magnetic fields have shown promise, Cappelleri said.

Magnetically levitated microbots, some the size of a pinhead, demonstrate construction skills on the small scale

Hiro's bid to be accepted into the prestigious school lies in impressing professor Robert Callaghan (James Cromwell), so he creates a mind - controlled microbot — well, zillions of them, which swirl like magnetized metal shards into whatever the teen telepathically instructs.

Set in the hyper - futuristic San Fransokyo, the superhero saga sees Hiro team up with medic - bot Baymax (Scott Adsit) and fellow students Wasabi (Damon Wayans Jr.), Honey Lemon (Genesis Rodriguez), GoGo Tomago (Jamie Chung) and Fred (T.J. Miller) to take down a mysterious super-villain who's stolen Hiro's next - gen microbots and has nothing short of evil intentions for them.

us playstation fans are just trying to help blinded microbots like you get your moneys worth instead of feeding one of the crappiest corporations in the world that is micro $ oft... we're trying to help!!!!

RoboBess are flying microbots weighing 80 - milligram each, capable of flying controllable, sensing the environment and carrying a load.

Researchers have developed a tube - shaped microbot that removes 95 percent of lead from polluted water in one hour, offering a cheaper and more effective way for removing heavy metals than previous methods.

A new type of all - terrain microbot that moves by tumbling could help usher in tiny machines for various applications.

Von Maltzahn and Bhatia are developing ways to use nanobots nearly 500 times smaller than Montréal Polytechnic's microbots that can find their way to cancerous tumors without needing to be guided from outside the body.

Kratochvil describes how these microbots might someday be injected into the eye to perform high - precision retinal repairs without invasive surgery.

In Dean of Invention's debut, «Meet the Microbots,» Colan journeys to Zurich to find a scientist creating tiny robots that could perform eye surgery.

The microbot scampers forward by taking thousands of inchwormlike steps per second, each the length of a cold virus.

The Department of Homeland Security helped fund the project; it is possible that the microbots could be used to hide secrets or authenticate identities at important meetings.

But Bruce Donald, the lead inventor, believes the benevolent uses of a microbot outweigh the possibilities of James Bond — villain scenarios.

The microbot was tested on a dry paper surface, and in both water and silicone oil to gauge and characterize its capabilities in fluid environments of varying viscosity.

«Under dry conditions, these forces make it very challenging to move a microbot to its intended location in the body,» Guix said.

A continuously rotating magnetic field propels the microbot in an end - over-end or sideways tumbling motion, which helps the microbot traverse uneven surfaces such as bumps and trenches, a difficult feat for other forms of motion.

«These microbots could remove all contaminants that graphene can adsorb.»

But the microbots are capable of removing other metals as well.

The trailer, which is really more of a clip, shows boy genius Hiro going to the San Fransokyo (a mythical San Francisco - Tokyo mash - up city) police department to report an attack from a kabuki - masked man with microbots.

The microbots can morph into a building, a bridge, and in the wrong hands — perhaps a global robotics mogul like Alistair Krei (Alan Tudyk)-- are an unbeatable weapon.