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The study of surface texturing on a metallic surface has become a great area of interest of researchers in the last few decades. Surface texturing is employed for enhancing the performance of the surface in its working environment. As the characterization techniques have been evolving very fast, researchers have started mimicking the natural surfaces to take the advantages of their characteristics (such as self-cleaning, load capacity, reducing coefficient of friction). Manufacturing of natural inspired surface requires having a great control over the process to achieve the micro or nano features on the natural surfaces. Hence, the selection of the most suitable process and optimum parameters for machining of arrays of micro or nano features at large scale is highly desirable. This study reports an overview of different micromachining processes used for texturing on metallic surfaces and research gaps to be filled in the …