What is nanotechnology? What is nanomedicine? In this blog we will look at where nano and medicine meet in the second decade of the 21st century and where we expect to see it go by 2030. Nanotechnology I briefly described nanoscale manufacturing in a earlier blog, the building of devices at an atomic or molecular
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Robotics and automatons have always fascinated the human species. From capturing human likeness in sculpture to the creation of mechanical devices that simulated human movement and intelligence, we have always pursued the creation of humanoid-like machines. In the 21st century we are now beginning to see the emergence of what was only the product of science fiction in the past.
In the Terminator movies machine intelligence is pitted against humanity. Cyborgs venture into the past to eliminate key humans to assure the machines’ ultimate mastery of the world. Is humanity destined to be eclipsed by the machinery it invents? The ultimate expression of machine intelligence in popular science fiction is the intelligent robot, Data in
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