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Arguably mRNA vaccines are specialised nanobots. Also, depending on what scale you allow, the armies of microcontrollers now suffused into all sorts of machine
by DamonHD 5y ago
Arguably mRNA vaccines are specialised nanobots.
Also, depending on what scale you allow, the armies of microcontrollers now suffused into all sorts of machines are such things.
As might be the software bots for good and ill infecting some of our machines.
More generally, marketing folk and 'thought leaders' fling all sorts of (often unhinged) verbiage at the walls without asking engineers what is plausible, so no one should be astonished or disappointed when most doesn't stick.
- usrbinbash 5y ago> Arguably mRNA vaccines are specialised nanobots. A nanobot is a machine that takes action. mRNA is only an information carrier, read by the cells translational machinery (the ribosomes). The > depending on what scale you allow Nanomachines, as the name implies, are at the nanometer scale, so generally theterm implies machines (bots) that are at most 1-2 orders of magnitude larger than 1nm. A microcontroller that measures a few centimeters is, by definition, not a nanobot (It also isn't a robot). Even a robot that measures only 1mm is still 6 orders of magnitude above nanometer scale.