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n. a small mobile robot equipped with a microcontroller
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MicroBot is a twin-stick shooter video game developed by Naked Sky Entertainment and published by Electronic Arts. It was released on the Xbox 360 via Xbox Live Arcade on December 29, 2010 and on PlayStation 3 via the PlayStation Network on January 4, 2011. In the game the player controls a MicroBot; a microscopic robot designed to combat infections in the human body. The robot is tasked with destroying previous generation MicroBots which have become corrupted while fighting disease in the body.
Critics were divided on their opinions of the game, but overall review scores were moderate. Aggregate scores averaged in the 60% range for both platforms at websites GameRankings and Metacritic. Most reviewers praised the game's visual and audio presentation. They felt that the environments were convincing as areas of the body and that the soundtrack was strong. Critics differed in opinion in regards to gameplay; many praised the addition of local cooperative play and the ability to upgrade the MicroBot with new weaponry and features, but many felt the game did not add enough new gameplay elements to the genre to keep the player interested long-term.
Usage examples of "microbot".
The larger ones, the kind with actual motors and manipulators and transistors, screws, scrapers, memories, armswhat used to be called microbots when they were first made with the same technologies that produced primitive integrated circuit chipsthese congregated at specified sites and performed grosser tasks.
It has alarmed the old immortals, who have made laws and broken laws to keep the microbots for themselves forever.
Though he did have microbots in his blood, he had no skills or know-how to share them with anybody else.
Discovery magazine had run a cover story in May 1997 on microbots, featuring both "flying" and "swimming" models.
The first flying microbots, designed by NASA as unmanned exploration tools for future Mars missions, had been several inches long.
Now, however, advances in nanotechnology, lightweight energy-absorbent materials, and micromechanics had made the flying microbots a reality.
Robots, minibots, microbots, even nanobots, all working in harmony-billions of them.
Go up Johnny's Tree, watch the little blue microbots cleaning everything up, healing all the little accidental wounds inflicted on Dreamworld today by those who loved it a bit too hard - visible reminders that nothing in here could go wrong for very long.
Derec had pretty well established that those microbots, during a metamorphosis, were being reprogrammed by SilverSide's positronic brain, much like some living organisms—lizards and amphibians—seem to reprogram their own cells in order to grow a new limb or a new tail.