I recollect that some years ago a japanese company had demonstrated a
miro"plane" a device that could move out of plane. I'm not sure which one
it was, but it was one of the participants in the Japanese micromachine
program run by neDO and managed by micromachine center
Shekhar
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Shekhar Bhansali Ph.D
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