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Dr. Khamesee was interviewed for CBC News article and his scientific insight is reflected in the article “Insect-sized robot can go from air to water and back again”.

They consume minimum energy because they're lightweight and they can do many things that a big robot cannot do.

That is exactly what Behrad Khamesee and his colleagues at the University of Waterloo, in Ontario, have managed. They have built a micro-robot that levitates, rather like a Dalek in “Dr Who”. And instead of having an old sink-plunger doubling as its arm, their robot has a useful set of grippers.

- The Economist Magazine

A research team, led by Professor Mir Behrad Khamesee, manipulates magnetic fields to levitate and move around three axes a robot weighing about three-hundredths of an ounce.

 - cnet