LOL so this is the supposed future of manufacturing production, where you have these nano machines instead of assembly line workers of today, and where large factories that pumps out huge carbon emissions can be reduced to the size of a desktop computer and be more efficient and have near zero waste?
@crzer07 It is already here in many ways and moving faster everyday. currently automobile paint is made with nano particles. But then again luddites never believe the future will come.
The list of technical luminaries and pure scientists that believe in this is impressive, if don't think this is the future you're a fool.
There is some older fiction on this if that's what you need called the Diamond Age
Almost all commercial companies working in the manufacturing sector would be put out of service. It also wouldn't be a good business practice unless this machine is designed that it cannot make another nanofactory, but it is still a risk. So don't look at any commercial companies for funding this. Governments may. As far as I know European Union does fund such research.
There are multiple challenges too build such a machine, though. Such as requiring constant very low temperatures.
@Pendrokar The US Government has funded this research for many many years - look at the reality of MEMS developed at Sandia National Labs - the results of this are things like microscopic accelerometers - you probably have one already if you own a smart phone that tell when you flip it sideways to change songs!
just with every other 'seemingly unlikely' product, if humans can imagine it and they are determined, then they can build it. Just like electricity, planes or microprocessors. Imagine pressing a button and the world's fastest supercomputer the size of a fingernail comes out. video added to favorites.
just with every other 'seemingly unlikely' product, if humans can imagine it and they are determined, then they can build it. Just like electricity, planes or microprocessors. Imagine pressing a button and the world's fastest supercomputer the size of a fingernail comes out.
I doubt this think can work without a quantum computer controlling the fabrication process, because of the huge amount of information needed to be processed(your assembling every atom at a precise position in space). I don't think today's computers can manage this, but then again i might be wrong.
@NForcer211 today's computers can't, but nanocomputers won't have any problems. Still, I would like to see quantum computing, and luckily, nanotechnology will make it easier.
with nanofactory, gold, diamonds, etc, will lost value, since everyone with a nanofactory can easily make diamonds, platinum, gold, etc.
Also, factories of many or maybe all products will disappear, since we can build at home with our nanofactory. It will be like what happen in music industry, who wants music, now don't need to pay, just download. With nanofactory, who want a thing, don't need to pay, just download the data file and order nanofactory to make it.
@fernator5 You're wrong. Diamonds may lose value, since the raw material for them is carbon. But what is the raw material for gold in your mind? This video does not show transmutation. "Only" assembly of atoms into molecules. You can't create gold out of other elements, because gold is an element itself.
The government isn't pushing for this because they're stupid to some degree, but there has been funding going to the NIH, which in turn funds projects like this. To say that they don't fund it indirectly would be unfair; it's just that there are many different projects which deserve attention. In general, though, I agree - science must receive much more funding in the US.
This treatment would not be effective for metastasis. Light is required to activate the molecule bound to the surface of the nanoparticle. Thus, you have to concentrate the light at one site. Also, exposing the whole body to light would activate nanoparticles which haven't entered the cancer cells, causing undesired cell death in healthy tissues. But don't worry, we have many other good treatments planned for metastasis. :)
3. We tested this treatment on breast cancer cells, so it is unclear how other cells would respond. Cancer cells have slightly negative potential charge on the cell surface, allowing the small, positively charged nanoparticles to enter. We hope to increase the selectivity of the treatment, perhaps by adding special proteins which can bind to cancer cells specifically, which will allow the surrounding tissues to be left unharmed by the reactive oxygen species produced.
You ask many good questions. I'll address your 1st question last.
2. 50% of the cancer, in a PETRI DISH, was killed after a 1 min light exposure. Unfortunately, getting the light to the human tumor site is difficult, but it is being worked on (Fiber optics is a possibility, using low wavelength which penetrates deep is another). The nanoparticles enter the cancer cells more than they enter normal cells, allowing for targeted treatment with less side effects than chemo.
I've worked with nanotechnology multiple times in the lab. In that particular instance, we were using gold nanoparticles which absorb light and emit harmful forms of oxygen to make cancer cells kill themselves. I've also taken courses on molecular MEMS and NEMS. So yeah, I've quite familiar with nanotechnology. If you're interested in learning more, check out the Immortality Institute (do a google search). We discuss these technologies there.
No. Technology is advancing exponentially (See Ray Kurweil's TED talk: watch?v=IfbOyw3CT6A). We are already printing organs using cells (See Anthony Atala's TED talk: watch?v=7SfRgg9botI). Give this technology 20-30 years, and it will be here.
30 years ago, the computer at MIT was the size of a room. The computer in your cell phone is now 1000 times more powerful, 1000 times cheaper, and 1000 times smaller. 30 years from now, that computer will be the size of a red blood cell.
question is, how the hell do you create the nano machinery to make more nano machinery? Its far too complex, even if one is created it would be highly expensive and impractical, and that is me being very very optimistic.
@davedavedaveannoy1 "question is, how the hell do you create the nano machinery to make more nano machinery?" Program it.
"Its far too complex" I'm sry you think that.
"even if one is created it would be highly expensive and impractical" If that were true then people wouldn't try and create one in the first place, but they are and that should tell you something. Sure the first generation will cost a pretty penny, but it will not always be like that.
Yeah - sorry - Dave is correct. Dumb video - take a look - it is using machines to transfer hydrogen atoms - the structures on the 'machine' are smaller than a hydrogen atom - tell me Mr. Brainiac - what are the machines made from??
@jbanks60 atoms, you can build molecular machines and "tooltips" for specific atoms, hydrogen in this case. All has to do with the chemical bonds between atoms.
Yes - we can and have made 'molecular machines'. But we will still only be able to do what 'nature' allows. We will not be able to make machines as depicted in the video. As Homer once said; "Lisa, we follow the laws of thermodynamics in this house!!"
"impractical" - I highly doubt then when these machines will be able to create food and water, and pretty much any natural resource indefinitely, solving all of earths problems, that they will be "impractical" pfftt... have some vision man!
I want to design a way to project particle beam holograms. There would be protons and neutrons and electrons being projects into certain places in a certain order. Heat is applied, and maybe these nuclear particles could combine to create atoms which are already in position.
They're going to have to make the machines self-repairing if they want them to work. If macro-scale machines' parts wear down then nano-scale machines should be no different. Manually replacing one billion broken parts would be taxing and time consuming. The day we invent self-repairing, self-replicating chemical ciphers I'll be the happiest guy in the world.
@Phyerbyrd When a machine is only made of a few dozen atoms, it can't be gradually worn down like large machines, because you can only remove whole atoms, not fractions of atoms. But you are right that they will sometimes break, through chemical reactions, radiation, or thermal vibration, and I think (though I'm not an expert) that it would be best to make a nanofactory modular, so that malfunctioning machines can be removed, fixed or recycled elsewhere, and replaced easily.
@Phyerbyrd Repairs will not be necessary. If these nano machines are able to build any physical object, you can simply have it make a copy of itself before it runs down. Continue using the original, and replace it with the copy when the time comes. Repeat ad infinitum. Seems simple enough to me.
YES, I had the same thought in my head, but first of all we need to make machine at macro size that will make micro machines, and this is sooo cool, any country will be able to produce anything high tech!!!
bhahahaha, im gonna run and buy stuff to built a mini construction yard, that will build even smaller things, and so on and so on!!!
PS even what about the oxygen? is it supposed to be in vacuum?
It's an animation, I'm also thinking it's a joke! lol, at least I hope it is... If there is someone out there that thinks this is actually chemically viable, I am worried, or they've never done any high level science!
That was awesome. I can imagine it all in my head. It will be much like the 1st computer. Long, painstaking efforts, billions of dollars spent. Piles of grants and PhDs, and eventually they get a working model. That gets larger. And larger. And finally one day it's beyond the testing stages. From there it gets smaller, cheaper, more open ot the public...I just came.
My friend, take your luddite fears and run them out of town. How many people do you think work in the production of very-high-precision equipment?
Also, costs and speed: nobody is going to use nanotech to make cans, rulers, and clothes; it's cheaper and faster to make them like we do now. Also, what's the point of making molecule-perfect things, which you will use once and then recycle? Nanotech is best used when requiring molecule-level precision.
Yes i see your point, but then again, in the future, maybe everyone will have a couple of theese in their homes, and som kinda reversed machine in the toilet and the trashcan that breaks down every waste product in to molecules and send them into theese "Making stuff machines", so you can make your own can of coke, and then recyckle the can and the pee into a new one ^^
Who would own this technology, the government or individuals? I imagine that a set of regulations for something like this would be very difficult to formulate.
The NanoFactory Supreme Council has declared The Human Race to be "illegal aliens" and will summarily be "reclassifying" all humans into the subterranean slave mines.
After nanotechnology gets invented, it can reach the markets. At this moment, it is still a science fiction dream. K. Eric Drexler predicted molecular nanotechnology would be invented by the 2030's.
Aye ^^ i saw theese Nanotrousers on TV a couple of years back :) if you threw water on them, it would just roll off ^^ but the trousers looked and felt normal when you touched them :P
Absolutley! I think what this video shows here is stage fivi in nanotechnology, and we are currently on stage 3 or something, but when you have one of theese baybies, you can make anything, as long as you have rawmaterials :)
DivinityBleu has a good point. Everyone who posts that this might result into something bad gets thumbs down and made fun of. O.o Grow up Jason.. I hope this kind of stuff stays top secret. Maybe they will find a way to prevent it for being used for evil, but you and me both know people will find a way around that. Some people just want to watch the earth die slowly for their own reasons. When stuff like this start coming out, it's only a matter of time before someone like that gets one. =\
question....if it ever happens that one of the molecules creates some sort of instability would create a molecular or nuclear fission to occur over the layer which will basically create a chain de-particularization of each molecule and cell there ? i mean u really don't want to see that happening in you kitchen............BOOOM........
It takes an incredible amount of energy to produce fission. Even in the small chance that this could ever happen, fission of only two atoms wouldn't endanger a person in any way.
This is really fascinating, but I wander, what if some of the factory components break? If the machinery is so tiny, how can an engineer could locate and remove the problem?
My guess is if the machine has a problem, you just replace the entire thing for very little cost. They will also have nanofactories that produce nanofactories and so on up the line. Only the top level manufacturing plant would require any real maintenance and even maintenance on that would probably be done by a supercomputer program.
Great idea. But honestly, I would be further more interested in a nanotechnology which disassambles our waste to its single molecules. Let's say the shown process backwards.
We already have the gasification process(plasma converter),is not exactly the same thing as you describe but it works. You can get syngas, hidrogen, methanol, ethanol, CO, CO2, sulfur, diesel, jet fuel, etc, from it(i mean, from Garbage or any type of biomass)... Still, i know what you mean, its a great idea...
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.
In the late 50's someone proposed building smaller tools with bigger ones to the point of building a nanotech-scale tool. Of course nowadays it's a really complicated process, but look at your computer, it's CPU is incredibly tiny and contains billions of transistors, somehow they're making hundreds, if not thousands of those CPU's each day.
My opinion, Evolution ;), ya know, there was a race of some kinda animal that layed eggs, and then they just evolved over the years :) and they all originated from tha Amoeba ^^
And now we have a "Silicon Valley". And most people seem to ignore the fact, that with the creation of new technologies comes new industries. I wonder, if with the creation of newer nano-technologies would come with a new nano-security industry.
At first glance one would be thrilled from the possibilities, but, things being balanced, theres tremendous dangers in this. accidentally breathing in such nano machine (would be considered a man made virus) And yes the technology could be use to treat desease. But its dangerous none the less. And how would it shut down if needed. again, cool idea but terribly dangerous.
Experts in genetic technologyies in the ninetys swore that the human genome project was a waste of time and that it would "take every genetics lab in the world working in parallel hundreds of years to map the human genome". They were in a sense correct because the tools at the time were that slow. however they improved and it took around a decade instead of the hundreds of years.
another example of such amazing technological development is the computing industry which has grown exponentially for years.
Nanotechnology is the next revolution in science. i dont have a problem with people doubting this will happen soon but saying it will never happen? that phrase has been broken many times in history before
i think the idea is that you wouldn't have to service it. if it got horribly dropped, you could just have a different nanofactory regenerate it from scratch. It would completely change the economy of the world.
This would happen in 100 years if the rate of change was increasing linearly, but it is accelerating and will start to accelerate very fast soon. Just as a rocket starts off very slow , but after 10 minutes its traveling at thousands of mph.
Technology progress may be accelerating exponentially, but this will still take 100 years to be developed. Politics, economics and public future shock will significantly delay the creation of advanced nanotech. Not to mention that progress has to be hyperbolic rather than exponential to see this in less than 50-75 years.
I doubt that would be possible... it looks horrible for friction. Like a nanotech sized factory derived by downsizing macroscopic technologies, rather than one based on the actual forces at that scale. It wouldn't work. Real nanotech would look very different.
you would be shocked, i've seen things similar in real life. the sad thing is its not america thats making theses, its japan. i saw a beta type one time when i was out working on a magnet production system. this was about 3 weeks ago. the beta type machine could only make simple circuit boards but no processors, at its absolute best by the end of the decade, the scientist said it may be able to make most ipods.
if america would produce sutch things (witch she does..) they will use it in nanowar, nanosoapoperas,nanocola, nano [x], x e (0,controling peoples lives)
If america were to start producing these things they'd last for two years, make faulty goods and run on plutonium. The Japanese are intelligent, they will have us populating the stars in no time at all.
You people don't know anything about NT, do you...
There have been many developments in this area. Why do you think it would take 100 years to create a factory like this? You seem an old granny talking!
Think of this: If they could create a single nanofactory that builds nanofactories, the problem is solved. The process of nanoparticle creation is strictly calculated through atomic quantic study and so. It means that the atoms already know what to do and were to move.
See Ray Kurtzwiels law an accelerated returns the future may be alot closer...also see moores law...computers are doubling in speed and halving in price every 18 months....that puts us at desk top human level computing power around 2025 for $1,000.
I don't thing a nanofactory is the right appliance for nanotechnology. Better using nanotech in biotech reactions. The best factories for construction molecules and enzymes are cells. Ridiculous to manufacture something cheap like a pc with such an expencive technology. Maybe the biggest market for NT will be production of special active drugs for the human body.
this is so cool! all u need to make something is a corresponding program uploaded into ur factory... which you could get from the net... it's basically downloading material products.
Actually You will have complete capitalism. all assets and capital directed by the market wishes of individuals. You may still need to purchase software and rare atoms from microsoft or an offworld mining company though. On the contrary, Communism would dictate that the big brother government controls all nano machines for the greater good of mankind...trouble is...who is the government Stalin, Hitler, Clinton?
If the government owns the machines and operates them for us for the greater good then yes communist but if individuals own them then the market or individual free will dictates production and thus capitalism..
It will be somewhat mixed with a government entity owning stronger more powerful machines for police or military apps but people may control most every thing else...see communism and capitalism on wikipedia for a cleaner definition...In communism the government may say that the people own production but thats only a slogan in practice the government owns nearly everything.
Imagine piracy on this thing, print your own car! :D
Anciegher 1 month ago
LOL so this is the supposed future of manufacturing production, where you have these nano machines instead of assembly line workers of today, and where large factories that pumps out huge carbon emissions can be reduced to the size of a desktop computer and be more efficient and have near zero waste?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHHAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sorry but that's pure pseudoscience, it's absolutely impossible and it can never happen ;)
crzer07 2 months ago
@crzer07 It is already here in many ways and moving faster everyday. currently automobile paint is made with nano particles. But then again luddites never believe the future will come.
The list of technical luminaries and pure scientists that believe in this is impressive, if don't think this is the future you're a fool.
There is some older fiction on this if that's what you need called the Diamond Age
rrmackay 1 month ago
yes interesting, but can it run crysis?
Iamgercornholio 3 months ago
@Iamgercornholio lol that nano computer could run games that look better then real life, the graphics would be that much improved!
OccupyWarStreet 1 month ago
I can imagine kids watching this and it seeming like a 40s science tape
Regginyaga 5 months ago 4
so what's the timeline?
what exists now?
what's next?
superdiza 9 months ago
@superdiza
Almost all commercial companies working in the manufacturing sector would be put out of service. It also wouldn't be a good business practice unless this machine is designed that it cannot make another nanofactory, but it is still a risk. So don't look at any commercial companies for funding this. Governments may. As far as I know European Union does fund such research.
There are multiple challenges too build such a machine, though. Such as requiring constant very low temperatures.
Pendrokar 7 months ago
@Pendrokar The US Government has funded this research for many many years - look at the reality of MEMS developed at Sandia National Labs - the results of this are things like microscopic accelerometers - you probably have one already if you own a smart phone that tell when you flip it sideways to change songs!
rrmackay 1 month ago
just with every other 'seemingly unlikely' product, if humans can imagine it and they are determined, then they can build it. Just like electricity, planes or microprocessors. Imagine pressing a button and the world's fastest supercomputer the size of a fingernail comes out. video added to favorites.
VTOLAircraftMad 11 months ago
just with every other 'seemingly unlikely' product, if humans can imagine it and they are determined, then they can build it. Just like electricity, planes or microprocessors. Imagine pressing a button and the world's fastest supercomputer the size of a fingernail comes out.
VTOLAircraftMad 11 months ago
I doubt this think can work without a quantum computer controlling the fabrication process, because of the huge amount of information needed to be processed(your assembling every atom at a precise position in space). I don't think today's computers can manage this, but then again i might be wrong.
NForcer211 1 year ago
@NForcer211 today's computers can't, but nanocomputers won't have any problems. Still, I would like to see quantum computing, and luckily, nanotechnology will make it easier.
ApertureScience27 3 months ago
Why can't I stop replaying this video!!!
prepare2fire 1 year ago 2
I would be curious to see the whole mechanism from the final product to the to raw materials (recycling )
MarzioBalducci82 1 year ago
with nanofactory, gold, diamonds, etc, will lost value, since everyone with a nanofactory can easily make diamonds, platinum, gold, etc.
Also, factories of many or maybe all products will disappear, since we can build at home with our nanofactory. It will be like what happen in music industry, who wants music, now don't need to pay, just download. With nanofactory, who want a thing, don't need to pay, just download the data file and order nanofactory to make it.
fernator5 1 year ago
@fernator5 You're wrong. Diamonds may lose value, since the raw material for them is carbon. But what is the raw material for gold in your mind? This video does not show transmutation. "Only" assembly of atoms into molecules. You can't create gold out of other elements, because gold is an element itself.
deezeemb 1 year ago
@deezeemb ah ok, I forgot that detail. I thought gold could be made with other athoms.
fernator5 1 year ago
@fernator5 gold itself is an atom, not a alloy
prepare2fire 1 year ago
@silent9173
The government isn't pushing for this because they're stupid to some degree, but there has been funding going to the NIH, which in turn funds projects like this. To say that they don't fund it indirectly would be unfair; it's just that there are many different projects which deserve attention. In general, though, I agree - science must receive much more funding in the US.
nyavramov 1 year ago
@silent9173
This treatment would not be effective for metastasis. Light is required to activate the molecule bound to the surface of the nanoparticle. Thus, you have to concentrate the light at one site. Also, exposing the whole body to light would activate nanoparticles which haven't entered the cancer cells, causing undesired cell death in healthy tissues. But don't worry, we have many other good treatments planned for metastasis. :)
nyavramov 1 year ago
@silent9173
3. We tested this treatment on breast cancer cells, so it is unclear how other cells would respond. Cancer cells have slightly negative potential charge on the cell surface, allowing the small, positively charged nanoparticles to enter. We hope to increase the selectivity of the treatment, perhaps by adding special proteins which can bind to cancer cells specifically, which will allow the surrounding tissues to be left unharmed by the reactive oxygen species produced.
nyavramov 1 year ago
@silent9173
You ask many good questions. I'll address your 1st question last.
2. 50% of the cancer, in a PETRI DISH, was killed after a 1 min light exposure. Unfortunately, getting the light to the human tumor site is difficult, but it is being worked on (Fiber optics is a possibility, using low wavelength which penetrates deep is another). The nanoparticles enter the cancer cells more than they enter normal cells, allowing for targeted treatment with less side effects than chemo.
Cont..
nyavramov 1 year ago
@silent9173
I've worked with nanotechnology multiple times in the lab. In that particular instance, we were using gold nanoparticles which absorb light and emit harmful forms of oxygen to make cancer cells kill themselves. I've also taken courses on molecular MEMS and NEMS. So yeah, I've quite familiar with nanotechnology. If you're interested in learning more, check out the Immortality Institute (do a google search). We discuss these technologies there.
nyavramov 1 year ago
@silent9173
No. Technology is advancing exponentially (See Ray Kurweil's TED talk: watch?v=IfbOyw3CT6A). We are already printing organs using cells (See Anthony Atala's TED talk: watch?v=7SfRgg9botI). Give this technology 20-30 years, and it will be here.
30 years ago, the computer at MIT was the size of a room. The computer in your cell phone is now 1000 times more powerful, 1000 times cheaper, and 1000 times smaller. 30 years from now, that computer will be the size of a red blood cell.
nyavramov 1 year ago
@DopeMcDoperson Just imagine what kind of database this machine must have to make process 1000000000 faster than 1 thousand human brains together!
It's a beautiful theory, but it's not that simple... Very interesting though...
Firrodrigolosofia 1 year ago
@DopeMcDoperson yeah
matchbox555 1 year ago
@DopeMcDoperson by 2020
matchbox555 1 year ago
Email me some nano robots
UlearnThenUtalk 1 year ago
Someday, people will be born by this way.
Ztop15 1 year ago
all true statements...this would surely take at least a decade to get at least one small simple nano machine to work
kenduru 1 year ago
it wont get me a nice piece of ass
matchbox555 1 year ago
@matchbox555 It will in virtual reality
stokepogue 1 year ago
Thats great until one little piece of dust crushes all the little gears...
It better have a warranty.
hintzofcolorconcepts 1 year ago
every sperm i sacred.
goldenhog 1 year ago
what the faaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh!?!?!?!??!?!
Crapsghetti 1 year ago
question is, how the hell do you create the nano machinery to make more nano machinery? Its far too complex, even if one is created it would be highly expensive and impractical, and that is me being very very optimistic.
davedavedaveannoy1 1 year ago
@davedavedaveannoy1 "question is, how the hell do you create the nano machinery to make more nano machinery?" Program it.
"Its far too complex" I'm sry you think that.
"even if one is created it would be highly expensive and impractical" If that were true then people wouldn't try and create one in the first place, but they are and that should tell you something. Sure the first generation will cost a pretty penny, but it will not always be like that.
atheelogos 1 year ago
Yeah - sorry - Dave is correct. Dumb video - take a look - it is using machines to transfer hydrogen atoms - the structures on the 'machine' are smaller than a hydrogen atom - tell me Mr. Brainiac - what are the machines made from??
jbanks60 1 year ago
@jbanks60 atoms, you can build molecular machines and "tooltips" for specific atoms, hydrogen in this case. All has to do with the chemical bonds between atoms.
Drowningtrout 1 year ago
@Drowningtrout
Yes - we can and have made 'molecular machines'. But we will still only be able to do what 'nature' allows. We will not be able to make machines as depicted in the video. As Homer once said; "Lisa, we follow the laws of thermodynamics in this house!!"
jbanks60 1 year ago
"impractical" - I highly doubt then when these machines will be able to create food and water, and pretty much any natural resource indefinitely, solving all of earths problems, that they will be "impractical" pfftt... have some vision man!
you make good points atheelogos
cmonutube 1 year ago
@cmonutube thanks : )
atheelogos 1 year ago
thats ridiculous...
bananas
TheConnormccann 1 year ago
in about 50 years at least. when i'm (if alive at all) going to be an old, ugly, lonely, dying sick fuck, but hope to see it in reality
nadoeloiskat 1 year ago
amazing.
Lightknife101 1 year ago
This was just 2006... Scientists have actually started to develope this idea already... well it was an idea, and soon reality...
laitela01 1 year ago
It would be awesome if someone can use these stuffs to assemble groceries...
Scarcity Solved.
greenheadjoe 1 year ago
I want to design a way to project particle beam holograms. There would be protons and neutrons and electrons being projects into certain places in a certain order. Heat is applied, and maybe these nuclear particles could combine to create atoms which are already in position.
spencertron88 1 year ago
They're going to have to make the machines self-repairing if they want them to work. If macro-scale machines' parts wear down then nano-scale machines should be no different. Manually replacing one billion broken parts would be taxing and time consuming. The day we invent self-repairing, self-replicating chemical ciphers I'll be the happiest guy in the world.
Phyerbyrd 2 years ago 6
@Phyerbyrd either self repairing or extremely robust.
cooladas 10 months ago
@Phyerbyrd When a machine is only made of a few dozen atoms, it can't be gradually worn down like large machines, because you can only remove whole atoms, not fractions of atoms. But you are right that they will sometimes break, through chemical reactions, radiation, or thermal vibration, and I think (though I'm not an expert) that it would be best to make a nanofactory modular, so that malfunctioning machines can be removed, fixed or recycled elsewhere, and replaced easily.
ApertureScience27 3 months ago
@Phyerbyrd Repairs will not be necessary. If these nano machines are able to build any physical object, you can simply have it make a copy of itself before it runs down. Continue using the original, and replace it with the copy when the time comes. Repeat ad infinitum. Seems simple enough to me.
belzondium 1 month ago
the factory looks awefuly complicated and good luck troubleshooting if a conveyor breaks down or something
Takeital 2 years ago
It would just create it's own again. ;D
SpawnXIII 2 years ago
YES, I had the same thought in my head, but first of all we need to make machine at macro size that will make micro machines, and this is sooo cool, any country will be able to produce anything high tech!!!
bhahahaha, im gonna run and buy stuff to built a mini construction yard, that will build even smaller things, and so on and so on!!!
PS even what about the oxygen? is it supposed to be in vacuum?
panzarw 2 years ago
Absurd! I dont believe that concruction
SenasDraugas 2 years ago
@SenasDraugas Maybe (about 300 years ago people couldnt kill each other by moving a finger.
TheNewOldVeteran 2 years ago
@TheNewOldVeteran bows and arrows dont require much finger movement
cooladas 10 months ago
It's an animation, I'm also thinking it's a joke! lol, at least I hope it is... If there is someone out there that thinks this is actually chemically viable, I am worried, or they've never done any high level science!
fleecemaster 2 years ago
I dont understand why you think its NOT possible to assemble molecules?
briandaley 2 years ago
I can finally get the AK47 I've always dreamed of.
pilgrimoftheworld 2 years ago
Man, I know you prefer a nuclear bomb
Nanodev 2 years ago
That was awesome. I can imagine it all in my head. It will be much like the 1st computer. Long, painstaking efforts, billions of dollars spent. Piles of grants and PhDs, and eventually they get a working model. That gets larger. And larger. And finally one day it's beyond the testing stages. From there it gets smaller, cheaper, more open ot the public...I just came.
wcfcarolina13 2 years ago 25
brilliant animation!!! from dr nanotek in norway!!
well done
espenladden 2 years ago
this will be in stores in time for christmas
matchbox555 2 years ago 2
Best explanation eva! Hopefully this will be out in 2030-50.
MicroHive 2 years ago 2
But wouldn't this leave millions of people without jobs?
and besides if this came out the first thing we would see is cans of coke...
everett151234 2 years ago
Sigh...
My friend, take your luddite fears and run them out of town. How many people do you think work in the production of very-high-precision equipment?
Also, costs and speed: nobody is going to use nanotech to make cans, rulers, and clothes; it's cheaper and faster to make them like we do now. Also, what's the point of making molecule-perfect things, which you will use once and then recycle? Nanotech is best used when requiring molecule-level precision.
StrikaAmaru 2 years ago
Yes i see your point, but then again, in the future, maybe everyone will have a couple of theese in their homes, and som kinda reversed machine in the toilet and the trashcan that breaks down every waste product in to molecules and send them into theese "Making stuff machines", so you can make your own can of coke, and then recyckle the can and the pee into a new one ^^
soulextracter 2 years ago
Who would own this technology, the government or individuals? I imagine that a set of regulations for something like this would be very difficult to formulate.
olivesama 2 years ago
The government would, i'm sure they dont wont this falling into the "wrong" hands...
everett151234 2 years ago
BREAKING NEWS FROM THE YEAR 2120 AD:
The NanoFactory Supreme Council has declared The Human Race to be "illegal aliens" and will summarily be "reclassifying" all humans into the subterranean slave mines.
TruthandJustice101 2 years ago
How long until this reaches Markets?
ctbzacs444 2 years ago
Finally....a laptop that can run Vista.
TruthandJustice101 2 years ago 38
@TruthandJustice101
ha ha ha!!
blankopus 1 year ago
After nanotechnology gets invented, it can reach the markets. At this moment, it is still a science fiction dream. K. Eric Drexler predicted molecular nanotechnology would be invented by the 2030's.
mollytherealdeal 2 years ago
your off!!!!
nanoScience and technology (nanoST) produckts are hitting the market with 5-7 new produckts everyweek!
qvantumelectricks will not come before 2030, but nanopharma, nanocoatings, nanomaterials are here and they are hitting us in a rate you cant imagne.
sorry for bad english!
espenladden 2 years ago
Accelerating returns. Your timetable is badly off.
Innomen 2 years ago
well my fresh repport from the eucommision tells otherwise......
so what do you mean?
espenladden 2 years ago
I mean that technological growth is not a liner progression, it's exponential.
(10x10) < (10^10)
Innomen 2 years ago
agree! but, for the last 3 years the rate have been 3 to 7 new peoduckts a week, and the foresight tells that it will be even more!
that was all i tried to say;)
espenladden 2 years ago
It hasn't been recently... Look at processor speeds. Technology has plateaued, due to reaching atomic level.
fleecemaster 2 years ago
Heh. Put simply, no it hasn't.
Wiki "Moore's law" and then click Other_formulations_and_similar_laws
Also, put "The Law of Accelerating Returns
by Ray Kurzweil" in google.
Also, TED talks.
I don't know where you got that idea, but someone pulled your leg.
Innomen 2 years ago
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Accelerating returns. Your timetable is badly off.
Innomen 2 years ago
Aye ^^ i saw theese Nanotrousers on TV a couple of years back :) if you threw water on them, it would just roll off ^^ but the trousers looked and felt normal when you touched them :P
soulextracter 2 years ago
Maybe in the future we can also have a food replicator like that on Star Trek?
Jenfucius 2 years ago 3
Absolutley! I think what this video shows here is stage fivi in nanotechnology, and we are currently on stage 3 or something, but when you have one of theese baybies, you can make anything, as long as you have rawmaterials :)
soulextracter 2 years ago 4
I think theres plenty of carbon around (raw maerterial)!
Imagine what kind of world we will have! No more hunger. The iradication of disease. Maybe immortality! Wow!
Jenfucius 2 years ago 2
Immortality!! thats the scary part..certain people will die and some live for ever..
benzprim 2 years ago
I could see where you are comming from.
As long as its good people (like yourself) then it is all good. We need more people like you.
^_^
Jenfucius 2 years ago
The best explanation I've ever seen yet.
evsevs289 2 years ago 5
absolutely fascinating and yet possible
sleepingeye 2 years ago 3
wtf is that?oO
danteisbrutal 2 years ago
Wow, this looks really scary.
Whovian2711 2 years ago
its a shame, i will not be there when this gets in the market
lyricjam 2 years ago
its a shame, i will not be there when this gets in the market
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Transhumanism101 2 years ago 2
Through nanoproduction we can achieve absolute perfection.
Imperar 2 years ago 3
Insane!
freestylesphynx 2 years ago
DivinityBleu has a good point. Everyone who posts that this might result into something bad gets thumbs down and made fun of. O.o Grow up Jason.. I hope this kind of stuff stays top secret. Maybe they will find a way to prevent it for being used for evil, but you and me both know people will find a way around that. Some people just want to watch the earth die slowly for their own reasons. When stuff like this start coming out, it's only a matter of time before someone like that gets one. =\
FBIRyan 3 years ago
What chemicals would you want to use for the feedstock? Those look like butane molecules. I'm sure you'd want everything to be entered as a liquid.
IZEASGT 3 years ago
They were a mixture of acetylene and benzene
chao129 3 years ago
go spew your shit in a different era.
maybe galileo would have a few words for you.
jasonguyperson 3 years ago 3
Turn it upside down + design for liquid = organ fabrication.. I really want to get into this field!!!!!
jasonguyperson 3 years ago
Thanks for posting this! Harvard
havardmindx 3 years ago 2
This is the FUTURE.
YoshiSeven 3 years ago 3
imagine writing the software for these things.. it would be epicly hard.. if not impossible.
j3wmunji 3 years ago
I want that computer with billion CPUs
xgalba00 3 years ago 5
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how to build them????? i think the engeneers missed thath part XDlololololololololololololollolollolololololololololololololoolololool
vigge42 3 years ago
Talk to the NIST, they already have a functioning prototype, it's crude but it's a beginning. Or rather, it's the beginning of the end......
vinbuik 3 years ago
think of thath you needs to build em to lol
vigge42 3 years ago
So I can program it to make a big old plate of buffalo wings?
Hworth8 3 years ago 2
woot?!?
vigge42 3 years ago
woot or w00t is an expression of joy or exitement over victory, not another word for "What" just so you know ^^
soulextracter 2 years ago
question....if it ever happens that one of the molecules creates some sort of instability would create a molecular or nuclear fission to occur over the layer which will basically create a chain de-particularization of each molecule and cell there ? i mean u really don't want to see that happening in you kitchen............BOOOM........
descreieratu 3 years ago
It takes an incredible amount of energy to produce fission. Even in the small chance that this could ever happen, fission of only two atoms wouldn't endanger a person in any way.
hlyfire 3 years ago
I don't think this would happen... They woud work with stabl eatoms or materials like hydrogen atoms carbon atoms, stuff like that. Not Uranium.
hyperdude144 2 years ago
This is really fascinating, but I wander, what if some of the factory components break? If the machinery is so tiny, how can an engineer could locate and remove the problem?
Versus1984 3 years ago
My guess is if the machine has a problem, you just replace the entire thing for very little cost. They will also have nanofactories that produce nanofactories and so on up the line. Only the top level manufacturing plant would require any real maintenance and even maintenance on that would probably be done by a supercomputer program.
voicefromthegrave 3 years ago 4
These systems will be self repairing
powerone1 2 years ago 2
Great idea. But honestly, I would be further more interested in a nanotechnology which disassambles our waste to its single molecules. Let's say the shown process backwards.
Excessdenied 3 years ago 6
We already have the gasification process(plasma converter),is not exactly the same thing as you describe but it works. You can get syngas, hidrogen, methanol, ethanol, CO, CO2, sulfur, diesel, jet fuel, etc, from it(i mean, from Garbage or any type of biomass)... Still, i know what you mean, its a great idea...
MrTioPatinhas 2 years ago
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.
clerlic 3 years ago
Kurzweil's a genius, but his optimism about the future is a bit much.
Hworth8 3 years ago
Coooool
But; how do they build the factory?
maybe with another :-}
Do someone know?
C4Pieper 3 years ago
In the late 50's someone proposed building smaller tools with bigger ones to the point of building a nanotech-scale tool. Of course nowadays it's a really complicated process, but look at your computer, it's CPU is incredibly tiny and contains billions of transistors, somehow they're making hundreds, if not thousands of those CPU's each day.
clerlic 3 years ago 4
haha what came first? The chicken or the egg ^^
soulextracter 2 years ago
In my mind it was the egg :P
(This egg was made by an animal, that was quite a chicken, but just quite.
Then with mutating genes,it put the information of the first real chicken in this egg.
Whats your opinion?
C4Pieper 2 years ago
My opinion, Evolution ;), ya know, there was a race of some kinda animal that layed eggs, and then they just evolved over the years :) and they all originated from tha Amoeba ^^
soulextracter 2 years ago
Funny they said almost the same things about computers.
I know everyone hates the USA for that mistake too. Networking also. Just turn off the electricity and go back to your candles.
You do not have to participate in this technological suicide along with America perveyors of horrible technology.
cyberbian 3 years ago
And now we have a "Silicon Valley". And most people seem to ignore the fact, that with the creation of new technologies comes new industries. I wonder, if with the creation of newer nano-technologies would come with a new nano-security industry.
neonas85 3 years ago
It is horrible to maintain and reapir the factory..
lowerlowerhk 4 years ago
So, is this how they make the iPod nano?
r2d2sue 4 years ago
LIES! Its a bloody washing machine!
anthwhite91 4 years ago 2
At first glance one would be thrilled from the possibilities, but, things being balanced, theres tremendous dangers in this. accidentally breathing in such nano machine (would be considered a man made virus) And yes the technology could be use to treat desease. But its dangerous none the less. And how would it shut down if needed. again, cool idea but terribly dangerous.
xevious2501 4 years ago
Experts in genetic technologyies in the ninetys swore that the human genome project was a waste of time and that it would "take every genetics lab in the world working in parallel hundreds of years to map the human genome". They were in a sense correct because the tools at the time were that slow. however they improved and it took around a decade instead of the hundreds of years.
Ramboticanastna 4 years ago 2
Good point
enantiomer2000 3 years ago
another example of such amazing technological development is the computing industry which has grown exponentially for years.
Nanotechnology is the next revolution in science. i dont have a problem with people doubting this will happen soon but saying it will never happen? that phrase has been broken many times in history before
Ramboticanastna 4 years ago 2
china is producing millions of engineers, this technology may come quicker than many people think
matchbox555 4 years ago 2
you nay-sayers may like to reflect on just how far technology has come in the last 100 years before you make stupid comments
JRCooper 4 years ago 3
I'd hate to be the poor bastard servicing this machine.
Predata22 4 years ago
these machines would service themselves ;-)
ibbscd 4 years ago 5
Touchè
Predata22 4 years ago
i think the idea is that you wouldn't have to service it. if it got horribly dropped, you could just have a different nanofactory regenerate it from scratch. It would completely change the economy of the world.
enantiomer2000 3 years ago
This would happen in 100 years if the rate of change was increasing linearly, but it is accelerating and will start to accelerate very fast soon. Just as a rocket starts off very slow , but after 10 minutes its traveling at thousands of mph.
lemdixon01 4 years ago
Technology progress may be accelerating exponentially, but this will still take 100 years to be developed. Politics, economics and public future shock will significantly delay the creation of advanced nanotech. Not to mention that progress has to be hyperbolic rather than exponential to see this in less than 50-75 years.
lonecretin 3 years ago
it should be done by 4pm tomorrow!
enantiomer2000 3 years ago 6
I doubt that would be possible... it looks horrible for friction. Like a nanotech sized factory derived by downsizing macroscopic technologies, rather than one based on the actual forces at that scale. It wouldn't work. Real nanotech would look very different.
Ytaker 4 years ago
you would be shocked, i've seen things similar in real life. the sad thing is its not america thats making theses, its japan. i saw a beta type one time when i was out working on a magnet production system. this was about 3 weeks ago. the beta type machine could only make simple circuit boards but no processors, at its absolute best by the end of the decade, the scientist said it may be able to make most ipods.
Justamit2501 4 years ago
if america would produce sutch things (witch she does..) they will use it in nanowar, nanosoapoperas,nanocola, nano [x], x e (0,controling peoples lives)
gregelel 4 years ago
If america were to start producing these things they'd last for two years, make faulty goods and run on plutonium. The Japanese are intelligent, they will have us populating the stars in no time at all.
anthwhite91 4 years ago
actually, they have run computer simulations on many of the aspects of these proposed systems and it looks like there r no show stoppers
enantiomer2000 3 years ago
You people don't know anything about NT, do you...
There have been many developments in this area. Why do you think it would take 100 years to create a factory like this? You seem an old granny talking!
Think of this: If they could create a single nanofactory that builds nanofactories, the problem is solved. The process of nanoparticle creation is strictly calculated through atomic quantic study and so. It means that the atoms already know what to do and were to move.
h34d4k3 4 years ago
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bullshit will never happen quote me
enocstyle 4 years ago
The problem of cooling the processes down is not solved.
Depotmaster 4 years ago
There is a solution out ther though...since we have a working template for these molecular machines...LIFE!
DK0526 4 years ago
You mean "learning active drugs"?
Depotmaster 4 years ago
Nice animation, but I don't see this happening for 100 years at least.
lonecretin 4 years ago
See Ray Kurtzwiels law an accelerated returns the future may be alot closer...also see moores law...computers are doubling in speed and halving in price every 18 months....that puts us at desk top human level computing power around 2025 for $1,000.
DK0526 4 years ago
learning!
homidog11 4 years ago
I don't thing a nanofactory is the right appliance for nanotechnology. Better using nanotech in biotech reactions. The best factories for construction molecules and enzymes are cells. Ridiculous to manufacture something cheap like a pc with such an expencive technology. Maybe the biggest market for NT will be production of special active drugs for the human body.
Depotmaster 4 years ago
why use nanotech for just one thing?
this is so cool! all u need to make something is a corresponding program uploaded into ur factory... which you could get from the net... it's basically downloading material products.
Schpwuette 4 years ago
what alien did yall get this technology from?
getmnymny 4 years ago
if everyone has a machine like this, no need for factories or laborers, we finally have communism !
bigmac2005 4 years ago
Actually You will have complete capitalism. all assets and capital directed by the market wishes of individuals. You may still need to purchase software and rare atoms from microsoft or an offworld mining company though. On the contrary, Communism would dictate that the big brother government controls all nano machines for the greater good of mankind...trouble is...who is the government Stalin, Hitler, Clinton?
DK0526 4 years ago
wrong
communism is the workers owning the means of production, and the elimination of scarcity and inequality....... so as i said......
if everyone had a machine like this, we will have communism.
bigmac2005 4 years ago
If the government owns the machines and operates them for us for the greater good then yes communist but if individuals own them then the market or individual free will dictates production and thus capitalism..
DK0526 4 years ago
It will be somewhat mixed with a government entity owning stronger more powerful machines for police or military apps but people may control most every thing else...see communism and capitalism on wikipedia for a cleaner definition...In communism the government may say that the people own production but thats only a slogan in practice the government owns nearly everything.
DK0526 4 years ago
communism has nothing to do with the state.
read marx
the state shall wither away
when the people truly own the means of production there is no need for a state
bigmac2005 4 years ago