Nanofactory Movie

[matn0v]

crnano.org/overview.htm has the answers to these many ignorant comments:)

[ethaneveraldo]

This is essentially a 3D printer with nano-scale printing capabilities.

[PugzM]

Yeah... Internet piracy would be about a million times more awesome if this comes about.

[boost112]

If this is made possible this kind of technology will never reach the average consumer at least not in this sick greed driven capitalist society. Do you people actually believe that any corporation would want or let people to have these machines? just think about how totally it would destroy the economy anyone could basicaly take a crap and turn that turd into gold there would be no more customers to any corporation.

[MrJoeltopia]

where can i buy one! i want that laptop!



[camwg]

@MrJoeltopia Blueprints? Huh? LOL not there yet friend. It is only a vision of what is theoretically possible. There is no known reason why this can't become a reality. There is plenty of real world work yet to be down before we have blueprints for such mechanisms. You should check out the Foresight Institute for the bleeding edge of our current progress.

[MrJoeltopia]

what program is this made with? and can i download the blueprints! this is awesome! please give links to where i can download these blueprints!

[camwg]

Not a bad idea. Then when they've completed designing it molecularity wise we can keep track of their advances toward reaching the goal of producing such a product. Someone might do a follow up interview with those currently cresting the bloody edge of nanotechnology to see what they think.

[camwg]

Not a bad idea. Then when they've completed designing it molecularity wise we can keep track of their advances toward reaching the goal of producing such a product. Someone might do a follow up interview with those currently cresting the bloody edge of nanotechnology to see what they think.

[Regginyaga]

someone make one out of legos

[blacklinen99]

Too bad we're never going to see funding for mechanosynthesis ;_;

[phantom2722]

>one million cpu's

oh god my sides

[ThorTheScienceGuy]

I want one of these!

[mickycheese27]

problem is controlling and creating the machines, it's impossible to pass enough information to control these machines at the 10 nanometer scale (100 atoms across)

[Draconiz001]

What i find encouraging and wondrous is the possibility of reversing this process. Taking all the garbage and waste of human society and being able to remanufacture it all back into useful products. Never will a war be fought over resources again, simply because this technology will make all resources recyclable with 100% efficiency. As a side effect currency will be rendered completely worthless due to the ability to make atomically perfect counterfeit. lol

[ethaneveraldo]

The potential behind nanotechnologies is so great that it is pretty much the only side of technology that terrifies me... And I'm a tech-addict.

Can you imagine if nanorobots were to be used as spy robots? or killer-robots? spying on every human being with the ability to trigger cancer or anything such...

And it won't take long once such technology becomes available for crazy government, fanatic religious and other insane terrorists to put their hands on one of those machines...

[ArchitekOGP]

Great we can build bigger more effiecient weapons. :D

[nintram]

the problem would ,imo be keeping these factories consistent on such a scale. Aka problem keeping the factory itself organized/functional. Just look at the biology, how much is needed to keep system with molecular scale machinery working.

I assume, It would have to me much more dynamic with various quality checks and noise compensation. In order to produce flawless product. Though it was sort of nice to watch and I guess has some good ideas with limited application.

[LocustFurii]

Watch the movie Johnny Mnemonic and in the story instead of circuit implants, think Nano-bots that you either inject or consume to get into your bloodstream. Potentially terrifying but if you had someone as bright as Einstein pioneering the research, much better days could lie ahead.

[camwg]

How exactly is it playing god? Sweetness you have nothing to fear but fear it's self.

[vide0viwer]

isn't this playing god a bit to much?

[Celerity2]

Although this video looks cool and all, they could have made a more unrealistic simulation of how this kind of thing should look like only if they tried very hard.

Although, using the word "look like" is kinda stretching it in the 10 nm scale..

Besides, for that, +like!

[Academician100]

What and how are powering these nano gears and machines?

[camwg]

@Academician100 The same sort of chemical releases of energy that fuel the nano sized machines inside your cell structures.

[Boy75402]

Wow. Very interesting. I'm curious... the video at the start considers the delivery of carbon further into the assembly line. Will there be other, similar mechanisms to handle silicon, and whatever other atoms are present in the product?

[datafreak667]

so wears the supercomputer needed to run that thing?

[camwg]

@datafreak667 since when did it need a supercomputer to run? We have machines designing machines now. What you need is a program not a supercomputer This is already on it's way it's being worked on right now. It may take twenty years but it is coming.

[datafreak667]

@camwg um with all the parts moving TOGETHER will need something to organize that

[datafreak667]

it is possible but unrealistic ... how long would it take to make that hmmm atoms are the building blocks ok nvm

[camwg]

@datafreak667 If it is possible what makes it unrealistic? And ya atoms are the building blocks, so? Run along now.

[datafreak667]

@camwg okay thing of all the atoms in that factory ok good its a lot but that is insignificant but how would you be able to build with atoms I understand its possible but wouldn't it take a VERY long time

[kionay]

lets see the maco repairman fix this when it breaks down

ahahahaha

the instruction manuel will be the size of a house!

MUAHAHA

[Thundralight]

@kionay no need for a macro repairman they will repair themselves

[XANDERXXZ]

People who are aksing how this would be built, there is a simple answer, make a very simple nano machine capable of making simple small compononts of a more complex machine eg. get nano machines to make more complex nano machines.

[Sjorsvdh]

Two problems,

1. How are we going to build those small items.

2. You need to make a blueprint of all the billions atoms or molecules that are in the product to put in to te computer.

[Gaby64TZM]

Lets make sure this is only made in a free society where we wont need to worry as much about people using this negatively for profit. Go Venus Project, all the other systems are fail, we need a resource based economy. Spread the word, society is bound to collapse. Go check out the zeitgeist movement and watch Where are we now? (Just google: zeitgeist where are we now)

[Madmann135]

Looking at the complexity of the system it must have a self repair system. Still I want one. Imagine the possibility of such an item.

and ...I want that laptop...

[killmyselfthinking]

I need a nano cigarette. . .

[Gabost8]

I WANT IT

[DK0526]

apply this technology to molecular biological tissue regeneration and you have a plausible technology for reversing the effects of people once considered dead in cryonic suspension. You simply rearrange the persons molecules until heath and youth are restored. Then thaw and awaken..new life ,better life , better world!

[videomissionary]

wow this will definitely bring online shopping to the next level!! No more shipping fees! :D

[vide0viwer]

yea and then one of them breaks

[lyraclaceras]

yeah usually ppl really don't undestand exponential development...

[jeansbabe60]

People think everything is too good to be true. Oh and capitalism does suck and i am an American. Also nanotechnology is possible just not right now. As for the end of the world happening before we get it i hope so because we are a horrible race thanks and have a good day :)

[leppy111]

These Negative comments are made by people who have no idea how fast things are moving now.

[camwg]

People are evil and mother gaia should get rid of us all. Let me guess your an evirowacko too, aren't you? Admit it numb nuts. Green on the outside red on the inside. Free market economies have lifted more people up and out of poverty than any other economic system in history. Do us a favor and stop producing CO2 will ya puleeze. Jerk

[DK0526]

@camwg true dat!

[DK0526]

@jeansbabe60 "we are a horrible race" you must be talking about the liberal race!

[majorleeblunt]

its beautiful! maybe they cannot build something exactly like this, but the vision here will inspire someone to make something close to this

the future is bright!

[richd506]

There is no way they can build a machine like that. Their best bet is to design nano robots which can self replicate rather than creating an infinity complex nano factory to build them...

[CHMteacher]

Never gonna happen.

[t07xqj4o]

The food might be poisonous to eat that this machine makes. A few atoms can accidentally come together to form a spec of cyanide.

[powerone1]

These systems will be able to analyze anything that it construct for quality control, so poisonous food would not be made.

[B4IRUTUARU16]

idiots on youtube somestimes the smartest thing you can do is say nothing at all

[sudnaidu]

As a famous rapper once said: WHAT?

[ccricers]

This doesn't have to stop at just making machines. With atoms common in many organic molecules it could be used to make an atomically perfect cheese sandwich! Or make the world's best hot dogs, without harming animals :P

[andyhan123]

Sounds like it makes a lot of sense, but I feel sure that there are much much more information left out to make it sound simpler. This is going to take years to develop I guess.

[kji02]

I hope this becomes available soon.

[JK666AB]

god, the things we could do if we crack nanotech

simultaneously brilliant and terrifying

[EvilAngelEyes]

Yeah it's one of the reasons I want to go to Waterloo, for Nanotech Engineering. It's too exciting.

[chilicheesebaconbrgr]

i'd like to pre-order that laptop!

[r2kordmaa]

how the hell would this kind of system handle errors? you have bazillion steps of construction, there is really no way to get them all rigth. and thus you cant really have the product you designed, each one will have countless errors. even more complicated would be to orchestare this production line. sorry but in less than 50 years time this is pure science fiction. even more doubtful is if it would be economically viable

[macleod1977]

"...how the hell would this kind of system handle errors?...there is really no way to get them all rigth...."

How do biological Processes function then? they incur huge numbers of system errors, yet you & i are still living & breathing. Drexlerian Nanotech will be no different.

"...sorry but in less than 50 years time this is pure science fiction..."

if technology advanced Linearly you would be correct. Unfortunately for you, technology growth is exponential. we will reach this by 2020-2030.

[lekkim4]

IF we don't kill ourselves before that, IF we don't run out of resources, IF we don't run into a physical barrier (law of diminishing returns, anyone?), IF there exists the political will to create it, IF there is not created a counter movement powerful enough to stop it.

IF, IF, IF.

"It is very difficult to make an accurate prediction, especially about the future." - Niels Bohr

[macleod1977]

I could play the "IF" game as well if i chose.

IF martians invaded

IF a solar flare fried our ozone layer

IF a cosmic EMP fried all electronics

so far there is no evidence of a phyical barrier to MNT, there's no evidence we're going to mass extinct in the next 10-20 yrs, and there isnt any evidence a movement, political or otherwise, is going to stop business & gov't from developing MNT.

you are putting forth "IF's" that don't have any evidence to back them. Thats called a negative proof.

[denisonM]

Capitalism will never solve the issue of poverty, because capitalism is dependent on scarcity for it to make profit, its major goal. If we would produce enough for everyone, products become very cheap, and in that way companies will not maximize their profits (the ONLY thing that matters in capitalism).

You just revealed what an american retard you are. Fortunately, your country will not be around for very much longer, despite electing Obama, which was a small step in the good direction.

[LucInk0]

Is it possible to use a similar technic to fuse (similar to when it takes the 2 hydrogen from the carbon in the video, but smashing them together) or splite the atoms?

[Xenoce]

Not really. sub-atomic forces require so much energy that MNT can't mess with it. Fission and fusion, I fear, are likely to always remain "hot" processes. (Of course, we could discover radical new physics, but if current knowledge holds, the above will remain true)

[iaunafilms]

Cr 15:40 [There are] also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial [is] one, and the [glory] of the terrestrial [is] another. [ the speed of light = 299 792 458 m / s ( times 10 ) = 2997924580, in human allowed math, notice the numbers of original speed of light and when you times it by ten then a ZERO appears electromagnetic ]

[QuantumCarl]

What a wonderful supposed future.

[Umips54]

Is it just me, or does this sound to good to be true?

[744268]

very kool!!!...lol i can imagine ppl making pizza from this. making machines build them at a molecular scale lol

[sz1a]

I would make a few dollars to go buy it at the local pizza store instead; probably better chef ;)

[camwg]

LOL

[xgalba00]

Eric Drexler is genius. I like reading his book Engines of Creation - Coming Era of Nanotechnology

[kazaamBLAM]

Also the boxes are nowhere near one tenth of the size of each other... And that's about the extent of my science knowldege.  Fascinating though! Somewhere I once read that nanobots might be able to be sent into a room as an inert gas or vapour and changed into a poison at the flip of a switch. That would be very mean and scary. Anyone know about that?

[MacGyverKilla]

If the nanosystems inserted into said room would be able to manipulate matter on a molecular level, they could "manufacture" nitrous oxide (N2O) from air (N2 and O2). Which, if the N2O content is high enough, would be deadly.

[FilmPA]

holy shit.

[asdfjkli]

good video. BUT it seems that all that machine is capable of is making very sharp diamond knife blades or just diamond blocks. every material required to make a processor cant possibly be made of just carbon atoms. say how would you contain an electric current if everything is made of the same material? and to make different materials (molecules) youd not only need different atoms but also an assembly mechanism a billion times more complex than the one shown.

[asdfjkli]

im not good with physics and chemistry so this is all just guesswork of course.

i love the noticeable fps drops in the vid though. they could sure use one of those nanofactories to build them a computer capable of handling the 3D rendering. :D

[mellowmaromi1]

Plastics are made from different patterns of carbon atoms. You could take a capsule of a substance, containing a complex compound, and take the compound apart, using each atom that it comes with, and reassembling them to create the desired compound. This would be used to create new materials. You can create circuits with carbon nano tubes, plastic from carbon.. Do you realize how many things can be made from different patterns of carbon?

[tarohoa]

great movie been looking for one like this. actually theres still alot of obstacles to get over before this can become a reality. its really hard to tell how long it'll take to come out, it's easy to say it'll take a long time but at best estimate you'll have to consider how many companies are willing ot fund it and any x factors. I'm no scientist but optimistically maybe 20 years?

[outubesy]

we can do the work,making moives like this

[Jomazi]

With such small scale the machine would have to be self-repairing or it'd simply break very quickly.

[tarohoa]

yeah i'd believe that'd be a major problem right now, error detection, prevention and maintenance. The atoms on the machine need to be extremely stable/air tight/contingency for errors.

[fal0u]

Amazing video! It not only shows how small is the nanotecnology's system, but also explain a little bit how It works!

[clerlic]

Great news indeed! You people have watched too many movies about robot rebellions, machines can work alongsite humans, or even enhance human abilities. Just go to wikipedia and type "Singularity is Near" , it's a book which contains some predictions of the future of the humanity with nanotek.

[GeneralY7]

Yeah nanofactories are great just as long as they dont become sentient and decide to use humans as raw materials....I wonder if would hurt....

[clbell]

I'm sure you'll need to worry about this once a tabletop factory manages to, on its own, with no arms or hands, stuff you into one of the bottles that feeds it raw materials. Nevermind the fact that you would just clog it up.

[flickertynumnuts]

oh no we are going to have laptops calling us human are morons! I prefer the Frank Herberts 'DUNE' scenario... BAN THINKING COMPUTERS

[Borpower]

laber rabarber... lächerlich

[camwg]

Not as ridiculous as folks like you who predicted we'd never go to the moon.

Guys like you have a track record, and it ain't a good one.

[Islandfad]

Those that say something is impossible are most certainly wrong. Many people thought flight was impossible too. The public is ignorant. Very few of them have any knowledge of physics, so I wouldn't expect them to understand. Fact is always stranger than fiction. Quantum computers and nanotechnology will revolutionize the world. The only reasonable speculation is there are no limits.

[notasmegingchance]

wow that concept in totally nuts.. the good and bad that could cause is massive..but really we are way way off actually building something like that..and being able to build that small is only the first challenge then you have to get all those billions of bits working right..Coolest idea ever but a Long way off it think.

[camwg]

a Long way off?

LOL

Not so long, it's not just theoretically possible, people are currently designing molecular sized motors, drive shafts, gears, etc, and patenting them. That is in our future; our being the operative word. The time will fly by, and before you know it, we'll be there.

[replicant2600]

1 billion CPUs are needed for porn on the future

[Xenoce]

Porn will not exist that far in the future. You'll just jack-in matrix style and play with your erotic programs.

[replicant2600]

Yes, the new slogan will be

"Jack in to Jack off"

[HUMANSOFMARS]

lol there will be porn thats all the internet was made for do u think they will realy delete it all jezzz some people crushing all the rest of out dreams (jokes :P)

[XaverInglin]

very promissing ((full of risks and opportunities,,, challenging))

[GCm4n]

REPLICATORS!!!!!!!!!!

=O

[rlucke12]

This...is...so...cool... I hope this thing actually goes into production because I want one!!

[V123456789U]

ONE BILLION CPUs LOL - that's nuts. You can kiss the Earth good bye. That would be WAY TOO much power for the flesh if you ask me.

[bubbles29118181]

Nice Movie Guys - hes a legend! auctionswatch.com

[camwg]

Bloody moron

[lioeviloym]

Nerd fantasy. Microfactories exist. But nanofactories are scifi, especially this kinematic nanomanufacturing. Why aren't those molecular "gears" and "pulleys" vibrating from heat? BTW poverty is caused by capitalism, not lack of manufacturing technology, as rusting factories attest.

[angel2901]

shut the fuck up!

[YuJinLong]

Rusty factories, on the contrary attest to bad management...& the outsourcing of production to lower cost foreign nations, (usually minus health care, retirement, legal protections or substantial environmental regulation).

Poverty is caused by lack of income, bad business/industrial policies, lack of education & opportunities, & bad personal choices coupled w/ unfavorable environments...not capitalism.

Capitalism is the cure for these conditions...

Socialism & Fascism are the actual cause.

[vinbuik]

capitalism + extremely advanced technology = the death of the human race. Capitalism promotes blind one-upmanship and does not provide adequate security measures.

[QuagMireFG]

Capitalism will never solve the issue of poverty, because capitalism is dependent on scarcity for it to make profit, its major goal. If we would produce enough for everyone, products become very cheap, and in that way companies will not maximize their profits (the ONLY thing that matters in capitalism).

You just revealed what an american retard you are. Fortunately, your country will not be around for very much longer, despite electing Obama, which was a small step in the good direction.

[sz1a]

What you are describing is perfect competition; something that theoretically leads to the best product at the lowest price. Don't forget that if the market is unlimited, there is infinite room for competition.

[QuagMireFG]

There is never infinite room for competition, because companies go to great lengths to maintain or increase their market share by means of patenting. In a market with few suppliers, they will make price or quantity agreements, which are illegal, but difficult to determine. In fact, the only market form I was not talking about was perfect competition: I agree with your views on that one. However, no market is a perfect competition, the only ones that come close are commodities and raw materials

[QuantumCarl]

Look how well it's turning out for us. e_e

EPIC.

FAIL.

[QuagMireFG]

For you, yes, for Africa, or African Americans for that matter, no

[YuJinLong]

I am afraid you have revealed yourself as being the one who is is severely retarded here. Ouch.

However education is palliative, as is actual, factual, true knowledge,...you should try gaining both, as it will no doubt be a new & valuable experience for you.

However, 1st you will have to 'Pull Your Head Out'...

Good luck w/ that.

Capitalism is based on "Demand", not "Scarcity".

"Pricing" is based on "Scarcity".

Cheers.

[QuantumCarl]

Indeed.

Capitalism moves things along, but it's not very powerful. It relies on a strong social infrastructure, which we don't have, hence the current world wide financial crisis. International trade ties are only so strong, and once too much weight is put upon them, they'll snap under the pressure. Demands aren't met, scarcity occurs, prices lower, but also quality lowers too. Cheaper price = shittier product.

[YuJinLong]

Hmmm,

Not wanting to get into 'splitting hairs', (although in terms of Nanotech, splitting hairs is pretty mundane stuff!).

Actually Capitalism is exceedingly strong, & actually generates & 'creates' a vast multitude of strong, (& 'Reality Based'), dynamic infrastructures. (Just look at what Bell's Telephone, Edison's Electric Light, & the "PC" empowered in terms of creation of

"Infrastructure".

Mass Corruption & Failure of "The Rule of Law" is what "Kills Capitalism"...as we are seeing now.

[Tuber77]

Actually Capitalism is based on the rules of Supply and Demand. If there a Unlimited Supply then The Demand dosnt really matter. Why do you think people in Star Trek dont use money. Because they have a Unlimited Supply of Energy (aka Anti-Matter) That they can use to have a Unlimited Supply of food, water & other products.

[roscogre]

it may be true. read "nanomedicine" online.

[davidmchale07]

Probably too complicated a thing to ever be built.

[LongShlong125]

nanowhores for people with nanodicks.

p.s , I downloaded the nanorex program (open source) , I can't miss on this future field.

[deo6666]

The time and money needed to even build the most basic, working prototypes of this machine are well in excess of what we can afford! not unless a lot of people starve and die.

[rbairos1]

How did you come up with these figures? and you realize this technology would make even the poorest individual materially rich by todays means.

[RexNunc]

holy shiznit Batman! NWO

[Blobulous]

as someone who has worked in factories i gotta say that just seems to me to be a trillion different things that can go wrong. And how do you repair something at the molecular level like that?

[gewehrmeister3777]

Exactly.

Not only that but there is no way to practically power any of the factory components.

[QuantumCarl]

Powering such small things requires very little.

The wind generated from a cough could do it, probably.

[rbairos1]

You wouldnt have to repair it, there would be absurd levels of redudancy in a machine like this. If any areas were malfunctioning, they could be discarded and rebuilt by the remaining portions of the machine.

[QuantumCarl]

Exactly!

Modular, would be the term.

[fiockthis]

And WHO exactly gets this technology?

Oh yeah, the New World Order

[Sidewinder77]

I'll tell ya what. I'll use my nanofactory to build new nanofactories until I can give one to everyone in the world for free. Good deal?

[fiockthis]

Tell me when you get one..

[elasalaty]

Ok, Deal.. please send me mine.

[JodasPinkt]

New world order is right -- nanotech has the potential to allow the widespread adoption of something not unlike socialism. It can make manufacturing so inexpensive that most products will be available at prices that are what economists refer to as "increasingly marginal". Land and labour will still have financial value, but most products probably wont.