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Diamondoid Nanorobotics

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Activity in the field of nanorobotics, as measured by published literature, has been growing at +30 % per year for the last decade. A wide variety of simple nanorobotic mechanisms have already been fabricated, but much of the interest in nanorobotics is focused on the future of medicine. Diamondoid nanorobots potentially offer the most powerful medical applications. Technologies required for the atomically precise fabrication of diamondoid nanorobots in macroscale quantities at low cost require the development of a new nanoscale manufacturing technology called positional diamondoid molecular manufacturing, enabling diamondoid nanofactories that can build nanorobots. Achieving this new technology will require the significant further development of four closely related technical capabilities: (1) diamond mechanosynthesis, (2) programmable positional assembly, (3) massively parallel positional assembly, and (4) nanomechanical design.

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Freitas, R.A. (2013). Diamondoid Nanorobotics. In: Mavroidis, C., Ferreira, A. (eds) Nanorobotics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-2119-1_6

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