Monday, October 2, 2017

The World’s 1st Molecular Robot Has Just Been Created by UK Scientists

http://bigthink.com/philip-perry/the-worlds-1st-molecular-robot-has-been-created-by-uk-scientists

It's worth watching the Michio Kaku video. He postulates that mature nanotech may be 100 years out, but that's likely highly pessimistic.

2 comments:

flashgordon said...

Hello again Underlings,

The dna origami and even this synthetic chemistry pathway is exciting; but, I like the electron microscope 3d printing pathway, as shown below,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPl8RlbowGc

I've left a few links showing some progress since this youtube. One group has used the new metamaterials to create aberation free optics, and allow these electron microscope 3d printers to make structures down 1 to 2 nanometers.

Another advance is to use plasmas. Using plasmas allows 3d printing to print with any atoms.

The only problem is one can't imagine 3d printing macroscale objects to atomic specifications - at least not much larger than an inch or so. But, these electron microscopes can 3d print robust Drexlerian Assemblers without going from one bio-assemblers stage to another.

Derek Mathias said...

Interesting simulation...although I don't think that'll be the model for assemblers.

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