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Penn and Michigan Create World’s Smallest Programmable, Autonomous Robots (www.seas.upenn.edu)
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[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

One step closer to gray goo.

[–] Avicenna@programming.dev 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

"Operating at the scale of many biological microorganisms, the robots could advance medicine..."

Probably won't be the first use case:

"When Miskin and Blaauw first met at a presentation hosted by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) five years ago..."

I don't have much hope that it will be used for the benefit of the average human but pretty cool tech otherwise.