The future grandfather of the nanobots.

[CaNsA]

Cool As Fuck!
https://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2013/simple-scheme-for-self-assembling-robots-1004.html

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[colin1]

Nice hype, but a flywheel in a box with magnets on it, is a way off being grey goo.

At the moment, it's a box that can jump.
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[CaNsA]

Hence "Future Grandfather" and dont forget penicillin was just a bit of mould....

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[tbourner]

They can't miniaturise that to the nano scale, it just won't work, they have to do all sorts of things differently to build MEMS let alone NEMS, but it is an awesome idea, very clever. No doubt it will be made a lot smaller than it is now; imagine thousands of them all 1mm wide! Then they'll learn things from that and maybe use some of the principles in the next level down.
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[CaNsA]

Colin....
Most of the technology we use today stems from Sci-fi.
Tablets, mobile phones, laptops etc etc

It would be pretty cool to issue the "be a chair" command to these modules and to watch them do it.

I am wondering what "grand claims" you speak of though, all I noticed was the creators saying "we hope to do this and that in the future"

Dont be such a pessimistic cock.

[colin1]

still just a jumping box at the moment
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Indeed - or good Sci-Fi tries to predict the future.

While I'm sure plenty of the people involved in these products are Sci-Fi fanys, I'd be confident these products would have come about regardless.

[Ariel Badger]

So what are they for?
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[Rogerborg]

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colin1 cannot distinguish between this

https://content5.videojug.com/59/591edeef-9f90-48ff-a580-ff0008c8de0f/how-to-clean-a-kitchen-sink-so-it-shines.WidePlayer.jpg

and this

https://yaph.co.uk/bathrooms/7%20Rolltop%20bath%20-%20after.640x516.jpg

His comments are invalid.

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Colin, does it take you effort to be this obtuse, or is it a natural condition?
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[Hetzer]

I have no idea if we already have free energy but the oil cartel scum are keeping it buried or if we're still missing that vital discovery. Either way, until we get that up and running they can shove little jumping boxes up their kazoo.
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[N cee thirty]

Sweet, one more step for lazy button pressers to have machines that will eventually become self aware and enslave humanity, it's cool now, but when there's no jobs left because everything is automated, people will think, why did we do this to ourselves.

imma glad i'll be dead once this monster is at full capacity, recklessness in the name of 'intelligence' and profit.
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