Nanorobotics
Nanorobotics is the emerging technology field creating machines or robots whose components are at or close to the scale of ananometre (10−9 meters).[1][2][3] More specifically, nanorobotics refers to the nanotechnology engineering discipline of designing and building nanorobots, with devices ranging in size from 0.1–10 micrometres and constructed of nanoscale or molecularcomponents.[4][5] The names nanobots, nanoids, nanites, nanomachines, or nanomites have also been used to describe t
Nanomachines are largely in the research and development phase,[8] but some primitive molecular machines and nanomotors 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 might be in nanomedicine. For example,[9] biological machinescould be used to identify and destroy cancer cells.[10][11] Another potential application is the detection of toxic chemicals, and the measurement of their concentrations, in the environment. Rice University has demonstrated a single-molecule car developed by a chemical process and including buckyballs for wheels. It is actuated by controlling the environmental temperature and by positioning a scanning tunneling microscope tip.
Another definition is a robot thatA practical approach with advanced computer aided manufacturing analysis is presented for the problem of nanorobot assembly automation and instrumentation. The prototyping development concentrates its main focus on practical experimental nanorobot hardware manufacturing design and control system for intelligent pathological sensing and manipulation. Medical nanodevices provide a suitable way to enable the clinical treatment of patients with chronic diseases. Hence, the detailed projects use inside body 3D real time visualization and hardware verification techniques, addressing key aspects required to achieve successful integrated nanoelectronics product implementation.allows precision interactions with nanoscale objects, or can manipulate with nanoscale resolution. Such devices are more related to microscopy or scanning probe microscopy, instead of the description of nanorobots as molecular machine. Following the microscopy definition even a large apparatus such as an atomic force microscope can be considered a nanorobotic instrument when configured to perform nanomanipulation. For this perspective, macroscale robots or microrobots that can move with nanoscale precision can also be considered nanorobots.
