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Nano-Scale Robot Arm Moves Atoms With 100% Accuracy

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the human-tetris-anyone? dept.

destinyland writes "A New York professor has built a two-armed nanorobotic device with the ability to place specific atoms and molecules where scientists want them. The nano-scopic device is just 150 x 50 x 8 nanometers in size — over a million could fit inside a single red blood cell. But because of its size, it's able to build nanoscale structures and machines — including a nanoscale walking biped and even sequence-dependent molecular switch arrays!"

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  1. Did we just break heisenberg's principle? by Shadow+of+Eternity · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If it can move and place particles with 100% accuracy then at least at some point we know both where it is and how fast it's moving...

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  2. DNA by mxh83 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    does this mean someone can artificially alter their DNA using the nanobots?

  3. Exactly by dreamchaser · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Exactly. Moving individual atoms and placing them where we want them is about as fine grained as we can get before we run into the Uncertainty Principle.