titled 'A molecular assembler', outlined the operation of the molecular robot as effectively a prototypical molecular assembler. A nanofactory is a proposed...

how long it would take such an assembler to produce a meaningful amount of material. He estimated that one assembler working alone would take millions...

to widespread legend, Drexler never claimed that assembler systems could build absolutely any molecular structure. The endnotes in Drexler's book explain...

Drexler describes gray goo in Chapter 11 of Engines of Creation: Early assembler-based replicators could beat the most advanced modern organisms. 'Plants'...

Coming Era of Nanotechnology, which proposed the idea of a nanoscale "assembler" that would be able to build a copy of itself and of other items of arbitrary...

an assembler or molecular assembler. Once assemblers exist, geometric growth (directing copies to make copies) could reduce the cost of assemblers rapidly...

Molecular machines are a class of molecules typically described as an assembly of a discrete number of molecular components intended to produce mechanical...

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are hard to control, and that a universal assembler is science fiction. Smalley believed that such assemblers were not physically possible and introduced...

Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology is a 1986 molecular nanotechnology book written by K. Eric Drexler with a foreword by Marvin Minsky...

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small particles. Molecular assembler Also known as an assembler, a molecular assembler is a molecular machine that can build a molecular structure from...

is dominated by large corporations. Manufacturing nanomachines assembled from molecular components is a very challenging task. Because of the level of...

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colloidal materials. 1959: Richard Feynman gave the first lecture on molecular technology and engineering or just nanoengineering. 1981: Gerd Binnig...

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Collaboration". Molecular Assembler. Alberts B, Johnson A, Lewis J, Raff M, Roberts K, Walters P (2002). "The Shape and Structure of Proteins". Molecular Biology...

don't do it" proudly. He was an outspoken skeptic of the idea of molecular assemblers, as advocated by K. Eric Drexler. His main scientific objections...

describe what later became known as molecular nanotechnology (MNT). In that book, he proposed the idea of a nanoscale "assembler" which would be able to build...

primary antagonist for the game. In SpaceChem the player has to build molecular assembler/disassemblers using nanomachines called "Waldos" controlled by a...

the nanoscale are based either on electromagnetic communication or on molecular communication. This is defined as the transmission and reception of electromagnetic...

A molecular cloud, sometimes called a stellar nursery (if star formation is occurring within), is a type of interstellar cloud, the density and size of...

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produced in the replicator with a special visual and sound effect. Molecular assembler Santa Claus machine Forever Peace, a 1997 novel by Joe Haldeman that...

becomes nanotechnology—one speculative goal of which is to create a molecular assembler to build molecules and materials via mechanosynthesis. For now that...

cantilever array sensors and the application of nanophotonics for manipulating molecular processes in living cells. Recently, the use of microorganisms to synthesize...

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take over other people. To create these nanobots, Edwin needs a molecular assembler, which he steals. With the help of Kendrick James (LeVar Burton)...

in the effort to manage the transition to a society revolutionized by molecular nanotechnology. "Nanosocialism" is a term coined by David M. Berube, the...