{"id":755,"date":"2006-03-12T10:23:24","date_gmt":"2006-03-12T15:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=755"},"modified":"2006-03-14T19:57:41","modified_gmt":"2006-03-15T00:57:41","slug":"bots-for-nano-fabrication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=755","title":{"rendered":"Bots for Nano Fabrication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MIT&#8217;s Technology Review has an interesting article (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/NanoTech-Devices\/wtr_16525,303,p1.html\" target=\"blank\">Link<\/a>) that fits in well with some recent posts of mine (like this one &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=753\" target=\"blank\">Link<\/a>). Here&#8217;s a couple of quotes to whet the appetite:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The researchers also demonstrated that their robot could gather materials and solder them into microcircuits, as well as use an onboard atomic force microscope probe to feel its way along a patterned surface, locating itself with an accuracy of two nanometers, which is less than the width of a DNA molecule.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nThose who support minirobots for manufacturing, however, say their main advantage may be cost. &#8220;As you&#8217;re getting smaller, the cost per robot should go down,&#8221; Fearing says. &#8220;You can start to think about doing things with a hundred robots working in parallel, where at the macro scale it would be too expensive.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The more I read about this stuff, the more appreciation I have for Mother Nature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIT&#8217;s Technology Review has an interesting article (Link) that fits in well with some recent posts of mine (like this one &#8211; Link). Here&#8217;s a couple of quotes to whet the appetite: The researchers also demonstrated that their robot could &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=755\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}