Definitions

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  • noun a small mobile robot equipped with a microcontroller

Etymologies

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micro- + -bot

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Examples

  • Ship shortage microbot skystrike slaughter survival.

    Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Aeon 10 - Marti McKenna Blue Tyson 2007

  • This new microbot developed at Sandia is only 1/4 cubic inch in size!

    Boing Boing: March 25, 2001 - March 31, 2001 Archives 2001

  • Delta-Two was staring at the live video feed from the microbot.

    Deception Point Dan Brown 2001

  • Just last month his Delta team had used a flying microbot to induce a lethal heart attack in a particularly malicious South American drug lord.

    Deception Point Dan Brown 2001

  • He maneuvered the joystick, spiraling the microbot down toward the surface of the hole.

    Deception Point Dan Brown 2001

  • Out on the ice shelf, Delta-One struggled with the controls, trying to keep the damaged microbot in flight over the group now assembled around the excavation pit.

    Deception Point Dan Brown 2001

  • The microbot was back out the window and “feet dry” before the man woke up with chest pain.

    Deception Point Dan Brown 2001

  • Once a microbot had been introduced successfully into a locale, it could transmit audio and video almost indefinitely.

    Deception Point Dan Brown 2001

  • The aerial view currently being transmitted to the Delta Force by the microbot circling inside the habisphere looked like something that would win an avant-garde film contest—the dim lighting, the glistening extraction hole, and the well-dressed Asian lying on the ice, his camel-hair coat splayed around him like enormous wings.

    Deception Point Dan Brown 2001

  • Delta-Two maneuvered the microbot away from the conversation and flew it back to its hiding place.

    Deception Point Dan Brown 2001

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