{"id":73205,"date":"2017-10-10T10:02:34","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T17:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/worlds-first-molecular-robot-capable-of-building-molecules"},"modified":"2017-10-10T10:02:34","modified_gmt":"2017-10-10T17:02:34","slug":"worlds-first-molecular-robot-capable-of-building-molecules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/worlds-first-molecular-robot-capable-of-building-molecules","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s First \u2018Molecular Robot\u2019 Capable of Building Molecules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/worlds-first-molecular-robot-capable-of-building-molecules.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists at The University of Manchester have created the world\u2019s first \u2018molecular robot\u2019 that is capable of performing basic tasks including building other molecules.<\/p>\n<p>The tiny robots, which are a millionth of a millimetre in size, can be programmed to move and build molecular cargo, using a tiny robotic arm.<\/p>\n<p>Each individual robot is capable of manipulating a single molecule and is made up of just 150 carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen atoms. To put that size into context, a pile of a billion billion of these robots would still only be the same size (volume\/weight) as a few grains of salt.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologynetworks.com\/drug-discovery\/news\/the-worlds-first-molecular-robot-created-capable-of-building-molecules-292896\">https:\/\/www.technologynetworks.com\/drug-discovery\/news\/the-w...les-292896<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at The University of Manchester have created the world\u2019s first \u2018molecular robot\u2019 that is capable of performing basic tasks including building other molecules. The tiny robots, which are a millionth of a millimetre in size, can be programmed to move and build molecular cargo, using a tiny robotic arm. Each individual robot is capable [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,48,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanotechnology","category-particle-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73205","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=73205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}