Dan Fabulich wrote:
>
> [Non-member submission]
>
> Looks like there's no time for an AI industry to pick up. At 670um,
> it can pick up and move individual cells. Don't worry, this won't
> reach nano-scale for at least a year or two, right? :)
>
> http://www.ifm.liu.se/Applphys/ConjPolym/research/micromuscles/mr/microrobot.html
670um is most of a millimeter- clearly visible to the eye! (At least to
my severely nearsighted eye :) Even a 670 nm arm would be two orders of
magnitude too large for nanotech. If you can see it, it's hardly even
microtech, much less nanotech.
-- Doug Jones Rocket Plumber, XCOR Aerospace http://www.xcor-aerospace.com
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