August 27, 2009
Forget about clumsy, lumbering robots. Think fast, precise, and acrobatic.
[Update: only potentially disturbing videos.]
See also the series on High-Throughput Nanomanufacturing —
— Small Parts (with videos, no robots)
— Assembly (with videos, no robots)
— Assembling larger products (with video of a very fast robot)
And…
Why I hate “nanobots”
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March 4, 2009
I’ll get back to self-assembly and related topics soon, but at the moment, I’d like to show more about how macroscale manufacturing works today. There are strong analogies to engineering problems that will arise when a technology base is in place for building complex nanomachines, and I hope that even readers from manufacturing-oriented engineering cultures [...]
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