Bug

Bugs are robotic probes used by the Machines to track a Bluepill's location in the Matrix. They are placed onto a human subject's skin, where they will burrow underneath and take shelter inside the subject's body. 
While activated they appear to be a small dark gray steel shrimp-like robot with wiry tentacles and a single red eye. However, once deactivated the squirming probe will appear to be back in a motionless steel probe and the red eye turns off.
Bugs can be removed from the host's body using an extraction device. The process is difficult and requires a fair amount of skill. When detected, the bug can simply move to a different position. 
==Appearances==
*In The Matrix chapter Unable to Speak, after refusing to cooperate during an interrogation by Agents Smith, Brown and Jones, Neo has a bug planted inside his body where the process jarringly plays out like a rape; Smith places the activated bug on the panicked Neo's abdomen as his cohorts hold the latter on the table, leaving him helplessly struggling as it burrows its way into his navel. It is later removed by Trinity and Switch.
*Ash in The Animatrix short film "A Detective Story" has a bug planted behind his eye during what he believed was an eye examination dream which was removed by Trinity when he found her.
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