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I’m not sure the ant is planning to do anything now that she has been coated with platinum and exposed to a high vacuum. 🙂
How the heck did he gets his hands on one of these before I did?!? http://www.nxp.com/news/content/file_1701.html
Nifty new biological pick and place machine, perhaps?