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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. Invisible Robotic Overlords! by jamesivie · · Score: 0, Redundant

    But can it seek out raw materials and make copies of itself? THAT would be cool! Welcome to our new nanosize robotic overlords!

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  2. Re:Exponential Growth by RealGrouchy · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Because they are nano sized would that not make them under lords?

    Probably. It would take a beowulf cluster of them--at the very least--to be any real threat.

    - RG>

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