Molecular nanorobots 2010-May-19 at 03:00 PDT
Posted by Scott Arbeit in Blog.Tags: medical, nanobot
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Spiders at the nanoscale: Molecules that behave like robots, 12-May-2010
Shrinking robots down to the molecular scale would provide, for molecular processes, the same kinds of benefits that classical robotics and automation provide at the macroscopic scale. Molecular robots, in theory, could be programmed to sense their environment (say, the presence of disease markers on a cell), make a decision (that the cell is cancerous and needs to be neutralized), and act on that decision (deliver a cargo of cancer-killing drugs).
Another thing we need to get to cellular-level medicine is some form of nanobot… something tiny – around the size of a blood cell – and with some intelligence to it.
This isn’t it yet… but we’re right on time with this kind of discovery to see the ultimate results (to go along with those nanopumps) in a couple of decades.
The Dawn of the Integral Age 
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