[ExI] Progress toward Drexler style Nanotechnology

[Giulio Prisco]

The link given by John is a review article, the full article is:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.aao4284

Press release here:
https://www.tum.de/nc/en/about-tum/news/press-releases/detail/article/34408/

On Sun, Jan 21, 2018 at 10:27 AM, Giulio Prisco <giulio at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Without self-replication it's not yet Drexlerian nanotech, but certainly an
> important milestone.
>
> On 2018. Jan 21., Sun at 10:21, Giulio Prisco <giulio at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for sharing, this looks super interesting. If the article is
>> paywalled, download via sci-hub (I think current working url is sci-hub.tw).
>>
>> On 2018. Jan 20., Sat at 19:18, John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> The cover story in the journal Science that came out yesterday (Jan 19
>>> 2018) is about a 25-nanometer-long robotic arm that can move things with 2.5
>>> nanometer precise that is at least five orders of magnitude faster than
>>> anything made before. The authors say in addition to constructing stuff the
>>> arm could be used as mechanical memory just as in Babbage’s 19th century
>>> Analytical Engine, only about a billion times smaller.
>>>
>>> I think anyone can get to this page but you may need to login to read the
>>> article itself:
>>>
>>> http://science.sciencemag.org/content/359/6373/279.full
>>>
>>> John K Clark
>>>
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