There was buoyant talk of robots, fuzzy logic and micromachines, but no real action.

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They are just beginning to know how to build the tools that would build the biological micromachines.

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There is no escaping the fact that, ultimately, micromachines will have to have microengines to drive them.

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But it is still an order of magnitude or more too bulky for the new generation of micromachines.

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Thus micromachines could be the key to technology's Holy Grail: artificial intelligence.

FORBES: MicroMachines: They're Huge

Computer chips and silicon micromachines are ready for your body.

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If chips are the brains, then micromachines are the senses.

FORBES: MicroMachines: They're Huge

In part, this is why many believe micromachines are "destined to become a hallmark 21st-century manufacturing technology" that will be just as grand and profitable as the digital circuitry it follows.

FORBES: MicroMachines: They're Huge

Because we already know how to manufacture lots of silicon chips inexpensively using a batch, cookie-cutter approach, we can make micromachines cheaply, sometimes even 100 times cheaper than their traditional counterparts.

FORBES: MicroMachines: They're Huge