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POPSSelf Assembly Robots Will Save Your Life Self assembling robots is the beginning of autonomous embodies artificial intelligence. Terminator scenarios are just our outdated need to understand a complex world in terms of bad guys good guys sort of mentality.
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POPSBig step in tiny technology Dr Manfred Buck, of the University¿s School of Chemistry, explained, "One of the central issues in nanotechnology is the development of simple and reliable methods to precisely arrange molecules and other nanoscopic objects. One promising route intensively investigated by scientists around the world involves the ability of molecules to spontaneously assemble onto a surface. What we have done is successfully combined two strategies which are complementary but, so far, have been explored independently, and it is this combination which opens up unprecedented opportunities for accessing the ultrasmall length scale." "The potential of this approach lies in its flexibility on a scale, about 1/10000 of the diameter of a human hair. Using molecules as building units, the features of our structures are less than 5 nanometres in size, which enables us to control structures and materials at dimensions where new properties emerge."
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POPSBio Lego -MIT & Harvard Scientists Create Living Building Blocks The self-assembly is based on "the thermodynamic tendency of multiphase liquid–liquid systems to minimize their contact surfaces", the most awesomely complicated way of saying "oil and water don't mix" possible. By preparing polyethylene microgel components and adding them to an oil/water mixture, the specially shaped bits align themselves along the spherical liquid interfaces. Applying a few seconds of UV light fixes the microgel in position and you have a ready made, biocompatible (and degradable) matrix ready for the addition of cells. Replicating the different tissue organizations of different organs becomes nothing more than a recipe book, choosing your initial microcomponents, mixture and baking time.
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POPSModular Robotics Scientists are building a new kind of robots capable of self-assembly and doing tasks too difficult or too dangerous for human beings. These modular robots are also able to deliberately change their shape by rearranging the connectivity of their parts, in order to adapt to new circumstances, perform new tasks, or recover from damage.
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POPSIBM's self-assembling nanotechnology Self-assembly is a term used to describe processes in which systems of pre-existing components form an organized structure as a consequence of specific, local interactions among the components themselves, without external direction. IBM is developing ways to use this in the chipmaking process
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POPSDead Horses Abused Again Once again an example of the tired "argument" of chance unable to explain evolution. I don't know if these people are simply too lazy to find out the facts or are too ideologically focused to recognize facts when they are placed square in front of them. He even mentions later in the article the Creationists "argument" of the self-assembling 747 Jumbo Jet. What a bunch of hogwash. Either these people are incredibly ignorant or they lie to protect their agenda. I suspect it's a combination of the two. I also suspect they think if you repeat a lie often enough people will begin to accept it. It's worked for Bush.
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POPSNanoscale Electronics: One possible medium Piquepaille's skepticism is probably warranted, but this release is no different from hundreds of others I've seen. In 1993, for example, we were two years away from low-resistence conductive polymers that would revolutionize battery technology; took a bit longer than that, as it happened. In 1995, we were two years away from three-dimensional optical data storage using intersecting lasers. Not quite there, yet; but I'll be right there ogling and cheering if it shows up.
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