More simple than the human hand with far more strength and equally fine control from tiny through high forces.

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This is fine for flying tiny microchips into Europe or America from Asia, but too expensive for clunkier goods.

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Fine filters capture debris as tiny as two microns.

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They boast large global market shares in specialised niches: ceramics and other fine materials for semiconductors, tiny motors for hard drives and other digital equipment, a range of sophisticated machines for making liquid-crystal display panels, and so forth.

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Tiny particles of rock ground fine by the glaciers that feed it turn the water milky and give it this astonishing, alien colour.

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The HTC brand is embossed in silver smack in the middle, and the Beats logo, speaker grille (an array of tiny machined holes) and certification details in fine print can be found in the bottom-center.

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