Applications of micro-flow systems

Currently, robots are mostly used in industry (production lines and machining centers), where allow high productivity and accuracy of work that human is not able to achieve. One of the many areas of operation of remote robotic systems are places for human risky or inaccessible. For this reason, there is a robotic device capable of analyzing samples in the location of their occurrence, and sending the obtanined data. Thanks to the development of these technologies environmental problems without risk to humans may be solved. The knowledge acquired from the application of these technologies can be further used in space research. In this review, we deal with microflow systems that are used for a wide range of applications, which are summarized in this work.

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