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Microbotics (or microrobotics) is the field of miniature robotics, in particular mobile robots with characteristic dimensions less than 1 mm. The term can also be used for robots capable of handling micrometer size components.

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It seemed she was also a scientist by background, and, like Doug Corfe, had worked with Heber at a company called Microbotics, toward Redmond on the far side of Lake Washington, east of Seattle, which also produced microscale devices but of less advanced design.

She had married Heber after the death of Kevin's natural mother, Patricia, and moved with him when he left Microbotics to start Neurodyne.

After the original micromecs were pioneered at Microbotics, where he had been head of research, a split of opinion had developed over which way to go with operator interfacing to best exploit the substantial applications potential by that time recognized to exist.

He knew that around the time that Eric left Microbotics there had been some controversy over alleged dangers of DNC, but he had been too young at the time to really follow it.

But by the time Jack came to see things more soberly, he'd implicated some influential people at Microbotics and elsewhere.

He tried another number and raised Andrew Finnion, head of security for Microbotics Inc.

Then Microbotics gets full rights, and we buy out Neurodyne as a subsidiary.

Jack had never risen beyond the class of specialist hired hand—looked after well enough and paraded in all the right places, there when Microbotics needed that awkward legal corner smoothed over a little.

DNC had been born at Microbotics before Heber even had thoughts of getting restless.

She had to be away, in order to be at Microbotics in Redmond to carry out the operation.

Eric had done a smooth job of enticing her away from Microbotics and its realities of the kind he would never be able to deal with.

Accordingly, he relied on Microbotics for his security arrangements, and the alarm lines from his office went directly to the company's premises at Redmond.

If he'd stopped for a moment to think that Microbotics might be handling Garsten's security, he would have guessed there would be nothing obvious.

The Microbotics mecs were still pretty crude, non-DNC types—the body suit was evidence enough of that.

Although, given the kind of equipment that was sure to be available at a place like Microbotics, they would still have more-than-adequate capabilities when it came to communications.