Nanorobotics

By Sean Brakefield

What is a nanorobot?

Also called nanoid, nanobot, nanite, nanomite, or nanomachine.

A machine ranging in or close to the scale of a nanometer (1 billionth of a meter).

Or a machine that allows precision interactions with nano-sized objects or at a nano-scale.

History

First conceptualized by Albert Hibbs and Richard Feynman.

“There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom.” “Swallow the doctor.” Relatively new field. First Inventor was Adriano Cavalcanti.

Nanocar

Developed by Rice University in 2005. Uses a Scanning Tunneling Microscope it can

drive molecules is a certain direction to create propulsion.

Uses buckyballs for wheels.

Utility Fog

First proposed by Dr. John Hall in 1993 for a seat belt replacement in cars.

Can be used on a massive scale to theoretically create any sort of structure.

Bio Chip

Nanorobots designed for medical purposes such as surgeries, drug-delivery, and diagnosis.

Currently being created, yet to be fully implemented.

UCF is currently using and teaching these nanotechnologies.

Nubots

Short for Nucleic Acid Robots. DNA based machines. Can be activated by proteins and other

molecules of DNA. Useful in in-vitro drug delivery.

Bacteria-based Nanorobots

Propulsion is a problem for most nanorobotic designs.

Uses a bacteria as a host and the flagellum for propulsion.

Magnetic fields can be used to control the direction of such machines.

MIT research for direct chemotherapy to cancer cells.

Video on Nanotechnology

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sITy14zCvI8&feature=related

Work Cited

Nanocar - http://phys.org/news64081416.html Utility Fog -

http://www.nanotech-now.com/utility-fog.htm Medical Advancements in Nanotechnology -

http://www.zyvex.com/nanotech/nanotechAndMedicine.html

http://www.gisborneherald.co.nz/article/?id=12940

http://www.nanorobotinventor.com/

Questions

What is considered to be the “Medieval Nanotechnology” and what was it used for?

What biological feature do bacteria-based nanorobots use for propulsion?

What is nubots short for? What is a Utility Fog and what was it first

designed for? What does “Swallow the Doctor” refer to?

Answers

The heating and cooling of stained glass to create the various colors.

The flagellum of the bacteria. Nucleic Acid Robot. A swarm of nanobots first designed as an

alternative seat belt. Nanorobots in the medical field.