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Microrobotics

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A micromechanism is a device handling micro objects and itself micro sized, i.e. much smaller than the size of ordinary machines [18.1].

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    Adam Morecki

  2. Cracow University of Technology, Poland

    Józef Knapczyk

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Morecki, A., Knapczyk, J. (1999). Microrobotics. In: Morecki, A., Knapczyk, J. (eds) Basics of Robotics. International Centre for Mechanical Sciences, vol 402. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-2532-8_18

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