Difference between revisions of "Nanotechnology"
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| − | The advanced automation section has mainly focused on automation technologies using robotics and 'macro'-scale systems, as it describes systems that could be achieved with today's technology. However, even more sophisticated and capable technology using {{wp|Molecular_nanotechnology|nano-scale devices}} (at the atomic and molecular scale) are likely to be feasible in the coming decades, that could ultimately give us a similar level of control over matter that we currently over information using computers. | + | The advanced automation section has mainly focused on automation technologies using robotics and 'macro'-scale systems, as it describes systems that could be achieved with today's technology. However, even more sophisticated and capable technology using {{wp|Molecular_nanotechnology|nano-scale devices}} (at the atomic and molecular scale) are likely to be feasible in the coming decades, that could ultimately give us a similar level of control over matter that we currently have over information using computers. |
This is likely to end up being a mixture of top-down engineering techniques related to current semi-conductor fabrication, true bottom-up molecular engineering and self-assembly, and derivatives from {{wp|biotechnology|biotechnology}} giving us machines of unprecedented precision, capability and small size that will further revolutionise manufacturing, power generation, agriculture and medicine. | This is likely to end up being a mixture of top-down engineering techniques related to current semi-conductor fabrication, true bottom-up molecular engineering and self-assembly, and derivatives from {{wp|biotechnology|biotechnology}} giving us machines of unprecedented precision, capability and small size that will further revolutionise manufacturing, power generation, agriculture and medicine. | ||
See also [http://www.molecularassembler.com/Nanofactory/DMS.htm Diamond Mechanosynthesis]. | See also [http://www.molecularassembler.com/Nanofactory/DMS.htm Diamond Mechanosynthesis]. | ||
Revision as of 12:30, 14 December 2008
The advanced automation section has mainly focused on automation technologies using robotics and 'macro'-scale systems, as it describes systems that could be achieved with today's technology. However, even more sophisticated and capable technology using nano-scale devices 
(at the atomic and molecular scale) are likely to be feasible in the coming decades, that could ultimately give us a similar level of control over matter that we currently have over information using computers.
This is likely to end up being a mixture of top-down engineering techniques related to current semi-conductor fabrication, true bottom-up molecular engineering and self-assembly, and derivatives from biotechnology giving us machines of unprecedented precision, capability and small size that will further revolutionise manufacturing, power generation, agriculture and medicine.
See also Diamond Mechanosynthesis.
