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Today you learn about how researchers are manufacturing robots that are half the width of a human

hair in the second edition of our micro scale Monday's mini series.

You'll also learn about a science backed way to stop the hiccups.

Let's satisfy some curiosity.

How do you produce robots that are half the width of a human hair?

You're about to learn how in the second edition of our micro scale Monday's mini series.

Our guests for this series are E. Ty Cohen, Professor of Physics at Cornell University, and

Paul McEwen, Director of the Cavley Institute at Cornell for nanoscale science.

They agree that the robots we're talking about are pretty small, but here's

Paul McEwen on what makes their tiny production possible. It's incredibly

small, but fortunately here at Cornell we have basically the country's best academic

and nanofabrication facility the Cornell nanofabrication facility

where the latest and greatest tools for making small things exist in a giant suite of tools that a student can go in and do a

very sophisticated set of processes to make these small structures.

And again, the basic core technology is stolen from 60 years of Moore's law of learning how to make

smaller and smaller computer chips and then we're just adapting this technology to go beyond

just information processing and making things that can actually move.

So in the end it's the fabrication looks a lot like you're making some sort of computer device.

You have a wafer that goes through a series of lithographic processes where metals are dropped down or semiconductors or what have you.

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