Scrubmite

Scrubmites are tiny robots from the Rescue Bots portion of the Aligned continuity family.

Scrubmites are microscopic robots which eat bacteria and other tiny nasties. Their primary purpose is to sterilize rooms for use as clean rooms. They can be remotely recalled to their container.

Fiction

Rescue Bots cartoon

After the clean room at the Griffin Rock laboratory became contaminated, Doc Greene used scrubmites to restore it to cleanliness. In doing so, six of them hitched a ride on a donut which he had accidentally placed in the room, and were ingested by Kade Burns. As the scrubmites would feed on the helpful bacteria in Kade's body, the Rescue Bots and their human partners were shrunk to microscopic size and went in after them. They located three of the mites in Kade's stomach, where the four Bots used various techniques to capture them, but soon found they were too big to fit inside the Sigma. The three bugs were secured to the hull of the ship, but began trying to eat their way through. The team found the other three mites messing around on Kade's spine and manage to capture them as well, however while flying the ship towards Kade's head, the mites damaged the ship's ignition plate, disabling it. After that was repaired, the ship continued, though Heatwave had to prevent one of the mites from escaping before the ship could exit through Kade's nose. Once they were all outside, Frankie successfully recalled the six scrubmites to their container. Bot-Tastic Voyage