Future Vision by Erwin Van Lun on this article
Microrobots will soon be a normal part of life. The creators are thinking of applications for disasters where this kind of robot could take bumps easily, but I think that there’ll be many civil applications following. Think of cleaning the façade of a house: a swamp of microcleaners gets the job done in no-time. You grab from a bucket with a few hundred of them in it and throw them against the wall. Tracking and destroying dangerous spiders could also be an application. Or flying robots could chase dangerous insects and kill them. Or spreading out several microcameras allowing you to build up a 3D image of the area if you’ve never been there before.
If you can think of any other applications, let me know what they are!