What is "micromachine"

Usage examples of "micromachine".

Her self-repair facilities, micromachines of various designs, crawled along the electronic neural extenders and yanked the filaments out of her tanks and filled in the drillmarks.

My daughter’s rash was caused by gamma assemblers—the micromachines that assembled finished molecules from component fragments.

Awake once more in the darkness, I grasped the general and the spectacular-that we were nearing the end of the twentieth century of what men call the common era, that fossil fuel and generated electricity were indispensable to the everyday methods of eating, drinking, sleeping, communicating, traveling, building, and fighting, that micromachines of exquisite circuitry could store information in abundance, and that vivid moving pictures in which people appeared and spoke could be transmitted by waves or over tiny delicate fibers more precious than spun glass.

Then Ohme put the Loti in this 'tanning bed' that was, in reality, a device designed to blow up the micromachines.