NANOROBTICS

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NanoscienceNanobotsA prefix that means very,

very, small.

The word nano is from the Greek word ‘Nanos’ meaning

Dwarf. It is a prefix used to describe "one billionth" of

something, or 0.000000001.

The word nano is from the Greek word ‘Nanos’ meaning

Dwarf. It is a prefix used to describe "one billionth" of

something, or 0.000000001.

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NanoscienceNanobotsA part of science that studies

small stuff.

It’s not biology, physics or chemistry. It’s all sciences that work with the very small.

It’s not biology, physics or chemistry. It’s all sciences that work with the very small.

Nanoscience

Understanding Size

1 metre

Understanding Size

10 centimetres

Understanding Size

1 centimetre

Understanding Size

100 micrometres

Understanding Size

10 micrometres

Understanding Size

1 micrometre

Understanding Size

100 nanometres

Understanding Size

10 nanometres

Understanding Size

1 nanometre

What is nanorobotics?

Nanorobotics is emerging tehnology field of creating machines or robots  whose components size is on scale of a nanometar 10- 9 meters

More specifically, nanorobotics refers to the nanotehnology which is engineering discipline of designing and building nanorobots

nanobots, nanoids, nanites, nanomachines or nanomites are also used to describe the nanorobots

Use of nanorobots Nanorobots are still in development phase but some primitive

nanomachines have been tested

For example there is is a sensor having a switch approximately 1.5 nanometers across, capable of counting specific molecules in a chemical sample

The first important use of nanorobots might be in medicine where the nanorobots will be used for identifying and destroying cancer cells which will save many lives

Nanorobots will probably also be used for “repairing” human bodies where the nanorobots will carry our body cells to the right places in our body

Ultimate Nanotechnology would be to build at the level of one atom at a time and to be able to

do so with perfection.

Arranged one way, atoms make up soil, air and water. Arranged another way they make up strawberries or smoke.

Arranged one way, atoms make up soil, air and water. Arranged another way they make up strawberries or smoke.

Bottom-up

Nature’s Toy box.

ATOMIC LEGOMolecular assembly is like a Lego set of 90

atoms that we can use to build anything from the bottom up! You just use every atom that you want. All of the elements in the periodic

table can be mixed and matched,

Problems As already we know nanorobot is very expensive to build because of

ther complexity and very small size it would probably be necessary for very large numbers of them to work together to perform microscopic and macroscopic tasks...

So if we need a lot of them to do something and to build just one is very expenisve the problem is how to replicate them.

Scientists didn’t came up with idea how to do that...yet.

...what if they build nanorobots who can uncontrolled replicate them by them selfs in natural environment?

Then one of the most bizzare scenarious would happen the GRAY GOO.

Gray goo Grey goo is a hypothetical end-of-the-world involving

molecular nanotehnology which out-of-control self-replicating robots consume all matter on Earth while building more of themselves

Self-replicating machines of the macroscopic variety were originally described by mathematician John von Neumann and are sometimes referred to as von Numanns machines

he term grey goo was coined by nanotechnology pioneer Eric Dexler in his 1986 book ”Engines of Creation” stating that "we cannot afford certain types of accidents."

Dexler said: imagine such a replicator floating in a bottle of chemicals, making copies of itself…the first replicator assembles a copy in one thousand seconds, the two replicators then build two more in the next thousand seconds, the four build another four, and the eight build another eight. At the end of ten hours, there are not thirty-six new replicators, but over 68 billion. In less than a day, they would weigh a ton; in less than two days, they would outweigh the Earth; in another four hours, they would exceed the mass of the Sun and all the planets combined — if the bottle of chemicals hadn't run dry long before.

Advantages and disadvantages of inorganic nanobots

well-understood component behaviour

ease of programming

ease of external control

unlimited chemistry (with enough energy)

Advantages:

difficult and expensive to make

not self-reproducing

difficulty of communicating with organic systems

must carry own (limited) payload

Disadvantages:

Advantages and disadvantages of organic nanobots

easy to make using genetic engineering

self-reproducing (cheap)

easily communicate with other organic systems

protein factories manufacture payload

Advantages:

poorly understood component behaviour (proteins)

hard to program

limited external control mechanisms

limited to CHON chemistry and needs water

Disadvantages:

Size Matters

It’s not just how big you are

It’s what you can do with it