In "Mini robots to undertake major tasks?," IST Results describes a EU-funded project which allowed to build several kinds of microrobots in the last three years. These robots are very small (about 1.5 cm by 3 cm), have limited on-board intelligence and are wirelessly controlled by a central robot control system. A follow-on project has already started, with an even more ambitious goal: deploy "real" swarms of up to 1,000 robot clients. Such robot swarms are expected to perform "a variety of applications, including micro assembly, biological, medical or cleaning tasks."
P.S. I didn't write that.
Mini robots
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