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A nanofactory is a proposed system in which nanomachines (resembling molecular assemblers, or industrial robot arms) would combine molecules to build larger atomically precise parts. These, in turn, would be assembled by positioning mechanisms of assorted sizes to build macroscopic (visible) but still atomically-precise products. A functioning nanofactory could create virtually any product at the cost of only the input raw material and energy.

Channel: Howto & Style
Uploaded: July 30, 2006 at 10:37 am
Author: Sidewinder77

Length: 0:04:55
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Tags: nanotechnology Nanofactory animation molecular assemblers nanomachines

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vinbuik (Monday 17th of November 2008 01:02:55 PM)
Talk to the NIST, they already have a functioning prototype, it's crude but it's a beginning. Or rather, it's the beginning of the end......
vigge42 (Wednesday 17th of September 2008 11:56:42 AM)
how to build them????? i think the engeneers missed thath part XDlololololololololololololollolollolololololololololololololoolololool
vigge42 (Tuesday 16th of September 2008 10:56:52 AM)
think of thath you needs to build em to lol
Hworth8 (Tuesday 16th of September 2008 05:15:43 PM)
So I can program it to make a big old plate of buffalo wings?
vigge42 (Wednesday 17th of September 2008 11:57:14 AM)
woot?!?
descreieratu (Monday 18th of August 2008 11:10:27 PM)
question....if it ever happens that one of the molecules creates some sort of instability would create a molecular or nuclear fission to occur over the layer which will basically create a chain de-particularization of each molecule and cell there ? i mean u really don't want to see that happening in you kitchen............BOOOM........
hlyfire (Wednesday 27th of August 2008 12:06:24 PM)
It takes an incredible amount of energy to produce fission. Even in the small chance that this could ever happen, fission of only two atoms wouldn't endanger a person in any way.
Versus1984 (Wednesday 30th of July 2008 08:10:56 AM)
This is really fascinating, but I wander, what if some of the factory components break? If the machinery is so tiny, how can an engineer could locate and remove the problem?
voicefromthegrave (Sunday 26th of October 2008 03:32:37 PM)
My guess is if the machine has a problem, you just replace the entire thing for very little cost. They will also have nanofactories that produce nanofactories and so on up the line. Only the top level manufacturing plant would require any real maintenance and even maintenance on that would probably be done by a supercomputer program.
Excessdenied (Saturday 19th of July 2008 03:58:30 PM)
Great idea. But honestly, I would be further more interested in a nanotechnology which disassambles our waste to its single molecules. Let's say the shown process backwards.