nanorobotics
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- "Swallowing the Surgeon"
- Legal and ethical implications
- Open technology
- Nanorobot race
- Approaches to manufacturing
- Biochip
- Nubots
- Surface-bound systems
- Positional nanoassembly
- Biohybrids
- Bacteria-based
- Virus-based
- Magnetic helical nanorobots
- Summary of helical nanorobots
- Movement of magnetic helical nanorobots
- Movement of a helical swimmer with square magnetic head
- Example biomedical applications
- 3D printing
- Challenges in designing nanorobots
- Potential uses
- Nanomedicine
- Cultural references
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
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Nanoid robotics, or for short, nanorobotics or nanobotics, is an emerging technology field creating machines or robots, which are called nanorobots or simply nanobots, whose components are at or near the scale of a nanometer (10−9 meters). More specifically, nanorobotics (as opposed to microrobotics) refers to the nanotechnology engineering discipline of designing and building nanorobots with devices ranging in size from 0.1 to 10 micrometres and constructed of nanoscale or molecular components. The terms nanobot, nanoid, nanite, nanomachine and nanomite have also been used to describe such devices currently under research and development.