Welcome to Molecular Robots. Molecular Robots is another term sometimes used for nanorobotics. Nanorobotics is the technology of creating machines or robots at or close to the microscopic scale of a nanometer. More specifically, nanorobotics refers to the still largely hypothetical nanotechnology engineering discipline of designing and building nanorobots, constructed of nanoscale or molecular components. As no artificial non-biological nanorobots have yet been created, they remain a hypothetical concept.
Another definition sometimes used is a robot which allows precision interactions with nanoscale objects, or can manipulate with nanoscale resolution. Following this definition even a large apparatus such as an atomic force microscope can be considered a nanorobotic instrument when configured to perform nanomanipulation. Also macroscale robots or microrobots which can move with nanoscale precision can also be considered nanorobots.
Molecular Robots are largely in the research-and-development phase, but some primitive molecular machines have been tested. An example is a sensor having a switch approximately 1.5 nanometers across, capable of counting specific molecules in a chemical sample. The first useful applications of nanomachines, if such are ever built, might be in medical technology, where they might be used to identify cancer cells and destroy them. Another potential application is the detection of toxic chemicals, and the measurement of their concentrations, in the environment.
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If you have ever thought of having an acupuncture treatment but have not for fear of needles, there is no need to fear now. In a new form of treatment silicone chips are placed on the skin instead of piercing it with acupuncture needles.
How do the Silicone Chips Work?
When I first experienced the Nano chips on my skin I felt a tingling, hot sensation in each acupuncture body point where the chip rested. While the chip retained its coolness the body responded with the ebb and flow of heat and a feeling of relaxing buzz, similar to when Chi is activated with acupuncture needles. Dr. Xu, co-inventor of the Health Recovery Chips and a practitioner of acupuncture in Toronto, explained the process as the permeation of vibrational signals that flow through the designated acupuncture channels to blood, to the organs, muscles, to all the cells of the body.
What is Nano Technology?
Source: www.technologyreview.com The video shows 3000 bacteria maneuvering a V-shaped robot around via computer control. Researchers in Canada have created a solar-powered micro-machine that is no bigger than the period at the end of this sentence. The tiny machine can carry out basic sensing tasks and can indirectly control the movement of a swarm of bacteria in the same Petri dish. Sylvain Martel, Director of the nanorobotics Laboratory at the École Polytechnique de Montréal, previously showed a way to control bacteria attached to microbeads using an MRI machine. His new micro-machine, which measure 300×300 microns and carry tiny solar panels, will be presented this week at ICRA ‘09 in Japan. On such a small device there is little room for batteries, sensors or transmitters. So the solar cell on top delivers power, sending an electric current to both a sensor and a communication circuit. The communication component sends tiny electromagnetic pulses that are detected by an external computer. The sensor meanwhile detects surrounding ph levels–the higher the ph concentration, the faster the electromagnetic pulses emitted by the micro-machine. The external computer uses these signals to direct a swarm of about 3000 magnetically-sensitive bacteria, which push the micro-machine around as it pulses. The bacteria push the micro-machine closer to the higher ph concentrations and change its direction if it pulses too slowly. This is more practical than trying to attach the bacteria onto the micro-machines, says Martel, since the bacteria only have a lifespan of a few hours. “It’s like having a propulsion engine on demand,” he says. Martel suggests that micro-machines could one day be used for medical purposes although there’s still a long way to go.
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