Nano Robotics
ABSTRACT
This paper focuses on the current state of nanorobotics and its prospects in the near future. We are aware that this is an emerging technology and is still in the experimental stage. However, this technology has raised a lot of concerns like safety, job security and even the hypothesis of the nanobots leading to the end of the world (The Gray Goo). Many years ago, this technology was basically just an idea but modern science and technology capabilities have proven that these machines can be transformed from idea to reality. Extensive research is currently being carried out in various fields on how to apply this technology, the biggest of which is in medicine. The concept of nanomedicine will be discussed more in a later section of this paper.
Table of Contents ABSTRACT 1 INTRODUCTION 3 WHAT IS NANORBOTICS? 4 Nanotechnology 4 Nanorobotics 4 Swarm Intelligence 5 Self-Assembly and Replication 5 Cooperative Behaviour 5 Nano Information Processing and Programmability 5 Nano to Macro Interface Architecture 6 NANO ROBOTICS VS MACRO ROBOTICS 6 APPLICATIONS OF NANOROBOTICS 6 Medicine 6 Environmental application fields: Detection and measurement of Toxic Chemicals 7 Nano Computing 7 Other potential application Fields: 7 COMMERCIALIZATION OF NANO ROBOTICS 8 ADVANTAGES OF NANOROBOTICS 8 DRAWBACKS OF NANOROBOTICS 8 PREDICTED IMPACTS OF NANOROBOTICS 8 CONCLUSION 9 REFERENCES 9
INTRODUCTION
According to the interview with Adriano Cavalcanti “On Medical Nanorobotics Feasibility”, November 2005, Fantastic Voyage, he noted that the scientific film and book directed by Richard Fleischer and written by Isaac Asimov (Bantam Books, 1966) was influenced and inspired partially by the lecture given by physicist and Nobel prize winner Richard Feynmann at an American physical society meeting at Caltech on December 29, 1959 titled “There’s plenty of room at the bottom”, which considered the possibility of what later became
This paper focuses on the current state of nanorobotics and its prospects in the near future. We are aware that this is an emerging technology and is still in the experimental stage. However, this technology has raised a lot of concerns like safety, job security and even the hypothesis of the nanobots leading to the end of the world (The Gray Goo). Many years ago, this technology was basically just an idea but modern science and technology capabilities have proven that these machines can be transformed from idea to reality. Extensive research is currently being carried out in various fields on how to apply this technology, the biggest of which is in medicine. The concept of nanomedicine will be discussed more in a later section of this paper.
Table of Contents ABSTRACT 1 INTRODUCTION 3 WHAT IS NANORBOTICS? 4 Nanotechnology 4 Nanorobotics 4 Swarm Intelligence 5 Self-Assembly and Replication 5 Cooperative Behaviour 5 Nano Information Processing and Programmability 5 Nano to Macro Interface Architecture 6 NANO ROBOTICS VS MACRO ROBOTICS 6 APPLICATIONS OF NANOROBOTICS 6 Medicine 6 Environmental application fields: Detection and measurement of Toxic Chemicals 7 Nano Computing 7 Other potential application Fields: 7 COMMERCIALIZATION OF NANO ROBOTICS 8 ADVANTAGES OF NANOROBOTICS 8 DRAWBACKS OF NANOROBOTICS 8 PREDICTED IMPACTS OF NANOROBOTICS 8 CONCLUSION 9 REFERENCES 9
INTRODUCTION
According to the interview with Adriano Cavalcanti “On Medical Nanorobotics Feasibility”, November 2005, Fantastic Voyage, he noted that the scientific film and book directed by Richard Fleischer and written by Isaac Asimov (Bantam Books, 1966) was influenced and inspired partially by the lecture given by physicist and Nobel prize winner Richard Feynmann at an American physical society meeting at Caltech on December 29, 1959 titled “There’s plenty of room at the bottom”, which considered the possibility of what later became
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