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NANOBOTS TECHNOLOGY Nanotechnology, as well as the related robotics discipline of nanorobotics, examines how technology might be used to manipulate matter at the nanoscale. A nanometre, or one billionth of a metre, or 10-9m, is a measurement of one billionth of a metre. A strand of hair is 100,000 nanometres wide, whereas a water molecule is less than one nanometre wide. As a result, nanotechnology aims to function precisely at a fine scale far beyond what conventional microscopes can see — at a level where the very building blocks of life are at stake. There is no single defining form of nanotechnology, nor is there a single leading use, but developing nanorobotics for healthcare has immediate benefits. You can more readily treat and cure disease’s primary causes if you can influence molecules at such a granular level, or even on a somewhat bigger scale.

Now lets talk what other things Nanotech can do? It has the potential to improve a wide range of scientific fields. Medicine, the environment, industrial manufacturing, and even warfare are among them. Nanotechnology is a new topic in robotics that promises a variety of answers to challenges that have plagued humanity since the dawn of time. Nanobots have the potential to be one of humanity’s most significant achievements. Nanotechnology is the fabrication of tiny items that are so small that they are made of the atomic building blocks of life rather than normal materials. Nanorobotics is a branch of this field that focuses on developing robots that are so tiny that they are practically imperceptible to the naked eye. These ti-ny robots have the potential to achieve some very amazing things when they work together as a swarm.

Figure 19: Nanobots

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