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Robotic Hand May Be Tiny, Has Strong Grip

Scientists have developed a pair of robotic hands that are both strong and sensitive. The tweezers can guide themselves to pick up and move individual cells without damaging them, and have a grip that can be as slight as 20 nanoNewtons of force. In fact, so advanced are the little grippers, that they can be hitched up to a microscope and, with the right software, function without human control. More below. More »

12:00 PM on Thu Apr 17 2008
By AddyDugdale
2,687 views, 8 comments

Latest by zer0energy: If you like those, you should check out the tweezers at [www.MEMSPI.com] . Crappy webpage, but beautiful micro-tweezers. more »

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Nanometer-Wide PicoToilet, Plus a Gallery of Micrographs

Man, you're going to need to have a tiny butt to use this toilet—less than a nanometer wide, to be specific. Taken with an electron microscope by nanotechnologist Kaito Takahashi, this pic not only shows the intricacies of objects that can be constructed at the nanoscale, but it also demonstrates the astonishing smallness of the world you see at 15,000X magnification. This photo won the Most Bizarre award in the Bizarre/Beautiful Micrograph Contest at the 49th International Conference on Electron, Ion and Photon Beam Technology and Nanofabrication. Check out the gallery for more crazy nanoshots. [Zyvex Labs, via Wired]

10:56 AM on Wed Oct 3 2007
By Charlie White
20,731 views, 16 comments

Latest by mad macs: and my wife complains about me missing the bowl now... more »