Nanotechnology robots

Mulhall. D.. Out Molecular Future How Nanotechnology, Robotics, Genetics, and Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Onr World, Amherst, NY, 2002. 

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Scientists study protein motors because they are biologically interesting but also because they offer insights into mini-motors. Molecular machinery such as nanorobots or nanobots—tiny robots—is a major goal of nanotechnology, and it would have tremendous applications in a lot of fields, especially in medicine. Some researchers are trying to adapt protein motors to perform additional jobs, while other researchers simply use these tiny motors for inspiration. Ever since the 1966 film Fantastic Voyage, in which scientists shrank a team of specialists and a submarine and injected them into the body of a patient, people have been fascinated with potential treatments that would be made possible by tiny machines. 

Beyond these impacts, more advanced nanotechnology may allow active remediation of many environmental problems. For example, toxic wastes in contaminated aquifers may be neutralized by specially designed nano-robots (nanobots) that selectively capture undesirable molecules and then either sequester them for removal or break them down into harmless substances [114,118,119,124]. While nano-devices cannot, for example, render radioactive materials non-radioactive, they could capture molecules of radioactive waste and concentrate them into a form that would be easily removed [31-33]. 

Tweezers, scissors and screwdrivers are primitive tools compared to computers, but their importance and wide applicability to daily life cannot be ignored. Similarly, molecular scale mechanical devices would be very useful in nanotechnology. For example, a molecular robot that fabricates molecular wires and molecular machines that could penetrate deep inside the body would provide huge contribution in the fields of molecular electronics and medicine, respectively. 

We have discussed various molecular devices created from supermolecules in this chapter. Molecular level techniques and science will play an important roles in the development of nanotechnology in the twenty-first century. Ultrasmall devices with huge information densities will minimize pollution and energy waste, and improve our lifestyles. Tiny robots will be used in medical applications. Excursions into space - manned and unmanned - will benefit enormously from the use of nanomachines and the products of nanotechnology, which should lead to much cheaper and safer space missions. 

Kricka LJ, Wilding P. Micromechanics and nanotechnology. In Kost GJ, ed. Handbook of clinical automation, robotics, and optimization. New York, John Wiley Sons, 1996 45-77. 

By the way, these days nanoscientists are trying to develop a different kind of magic bullet. They are exploiting the unique properties of nanotechnology for self-replication and self-assembly in a living cell, by planning nanoscale robots, nanobots, or nanoparticles to selectively destroy bacteria, cancer cells, and viruses. 

Microscopic refers to objects that can be detected in common optical microscopes—they are microns (micrometers = 10 m) in dimension. Individual atoms are angstroms (10 ° m or 10 cm) in size. Large enough clusters of atoms form molecules or aggregates of molecules (such as viruses) that are tens of angstroms or nanometers (1 nm = 10 m) in scale. What if we could make computers, machines and even robots out of nanoscale parts Clearly, Nature has already mastered nanotechnology, why can t we ... 

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Today, people are inventing new ways to build machines. Nanotechnology, for example, involves making machines that are extremely small—less than 1/lOOOth the diameter of a human hair. Scientists and engineers are now developing tiny robotic... 

Nanoparticles. DNA nanotechnology uses discoveries involving nanoparticles and nanomaterials to manipulate DNA s molecular recognition abilities to build tiny medical robots that mimic bond parts or function within cells. 

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