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Medical nanorobots still seem incredibly hand-wavey. I'd stop laughing if I saw one good example of this technology such as a tumor being successfully neutraliz
by api 3y ago
Medical nanorobots still seem incredibly hand-wavey. I'd stop laughing if I saw one good example of this technology such as a tumor being successfully neutralized with nanorobotics. That'd be the obvious place to start since you're just destroying cancerous cells not repairing or constructing anything.
- Animats 3y agoYes. I knew Eric Drexler when he was touting nanotechnology, in the form of atomic-scale programmable robots. There's been very little progress on that in the last twenty years. Microtechnology, mechanical things made with IC fab technology, has made some progress. But that's several orders of magnitude larger than atoms. What's called "nanotechnology" today is mostly surface chemistry.