Manipulating objects without touching them has always been one of the most widely used magic tricks. Unfortunately, these tricks cannot be used in industrial environments to produce actual products. The ability of manipulating components without touching them would be especially useful for very delicate or fragile components like microstructures, thin dies or photonics. The latter is especially important because almost every component that deals with the interaction between light and matter needs to have an almost perfect surface.
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