Many assembly lines use pick-and-place robots to do repetitive tasks such as placing small components onto circuit boards.

December 15, 2015, “Role of ACE and PAI-1 Polymorphisms in the Development and Progression of Diabetic Retinopathy”, in PLOS ONE, DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0144557:

Could Spinoza be freed from his stiff old Descartesian mathematical form and made more accessible to the public, it will perhaps come to light that he, above all others, has cause to complain of robbery of ideas.

Beasts such as the whalawk and the sporm have been part of spacelore for generations and, unfortunately, it's true the whalawk is a 50 meter long, 30 ton flying horror with a ten meter wide mouth studded with multiple rows of razor sharp, three decimeter long teeth.