ANN ARBOR, Mich. — The Michigan Micro Mote is the world’s smallest computer. It’s smaller than a grain of rice and comparable to the edge of a penny. This computer is not going to be on store shelves ...

In 2015, the Michigan Micro Mote constituted the first complete, operational computer system measuring as small as two millimeters across. “To be “complete,” a computer system must have an input of ...

If you want to track a snail, you need a tiny instrumentation package. How do you create an entire data acquisition system, including sensors, memory, data processing and a power supply, small enough ...

Just how tiny is the world's smallest computer? According to a team of University of Michigan electrical and computer engineering professors, the new device they created is dwarfed by a grain of rice.

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ANN ARBOR, Mich. — The Michigan Micro Mote is the world’s smallest computer. It’s smaller than a grain of rice and comparable to the edge of a penny. This computer is not going to be on store shelves ...

The University of Michigan's computer science department has been developing the Michigan Micro Mote (M^3) computer for over a decade, reports CBS News. The M^3 computer is now ready for production.

The image you see above is the Michigan Micro Mote (M 3), officially dubbed the world's smallest computer. Despite its microscopic size, it is a fully functional device, as a team behind it recently ...