{"id":29882,"date":"2016-09-06T14:48:33","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T21:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/these-nanobots-can-repair-circuits-all"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:42:50","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:42:50","slug":"these-nanobots-can-repair-circuits-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/these-nanobots-can-repair-circuits-all","title":{"rendered":"These Nanobots Can Repair Circuits All by Themselves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Od5CkAgFrHo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A new technique uses the curious physical laws of the nano-scale itself to \u201cprogram\u201d nanobots. Welcome to the future of nanotechnology.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/futurism.com\/understanding-nanotechnology-astrochemistry\/\">Nanorobotics<\/a> has long been touted as one of the most promising \u201cmiracle technologies\u201d of the future. But one of the fundamental problems with such extreme miniaturization is how to \u201cprogram\u201d nanobots\u2014after all, you can\u2019t very well shrink computer circuitry to fit within nanometer-scale technology.<\/p>\n<p>But now, two researchers, Joseph Wang of <a href=\"http:\/\/ucsd.edu\" target=\"_blank\">UC San Diego<\/a> and Jennifer Balazs of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pitt.edu\" target=\"_blank\">University of Pittsburgh<\/a>, may have found an ingenious way to circumvent this problem. Forget computer controls and artificial intelligence programming\u2014let the laws of physics at the nano-scale do all the programming for you.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/futurism.com\/nanobots-can-repair-circuits\/\">http:\/\/futurism.com\/nanobots-can-repair-circuits\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new technique uses the curious physical laws of the nano-scale itself to \u201cprogram\u201d nanobots. Welcome to the future of nanotechnology. Nanorobotics has long been touted as one of the most promising \u201cmiracle technologies\u201d of the future. But one of the fundamental problems with such extreme miniaturization is how to \u201cprogram\u201d nanobots\u2014after all, you can\u2019t [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,4,219,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-nanotechnology","category-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29882"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60481,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29882\/revisions\/60481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}