Miniaturized

The new mission, called Dione after the ancient Greek goddess of the oracles, will carry four miniaturized instruments to study how Earth’s upper atmospheric layers react to the ever-changing flow of solar energy into the magnetosphere.

Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, in Nashville, Tennessee, are now developing miniaturized living copies of certain human organs they say will greatly improve testing the effectiveness of drugs and chemicals on people.

The miniaturized, propeller-powered robots have multiple cameras, which allow them to ‘see’ the world around them as they make their way through buildings and carry out their tasks. The researchers hope to attach arms to the devices, so they’ll be able to fix things, too.