The march of nanotechnology involves building very small mechanisms. According to Sci-fi.com, scientists at the University of Edinburgh have created a motor mechanism for a nanomachine. Last year researchers at the University of Georgia developed minuscule nanogenerators to power the nano world, but this latest unimaginably small machine — about 80,000 times thinner than the thickness of a human hair — runs on its own power.
The next challenge will be to load these with logic-- with a computer or similar means of directing nanomachines. One thought: leave them dumb. Give them to ability to recieve and act on external directions then transmit directions via radio waves, lasers or similar. Then the computer sending the messages could work from a theoretical model of where the nanobots are and what they should be doing and update the actions so that many nanobots could work in tandem.
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