{"id":10134,"date":"2013-04-01T16:11:40","date_gmt":"2013-04-01T16:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/video_how_nanobots_or_nanites_could_work.html"},"modified":"2022-10-14T18:35:04","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T22:35:04","slug":"video-how-nanobots-or-nanites-could-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/video-how-nanobots-or-nanites-could-work.html","title":{"rendered":"Video: How Nanobots or Nanites Could Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For Star Trek fans who have grown up seeing fictional <a href=\"http:\/\/en.memory-alpha.org\/wiki\/Nanite\">nanites<\/a> solving a variety of problems in the human body and beyond, this has to be a very exciting month. Researchers from the Sheffield Centre for Robotics <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/science\/science-news\/9965029\/Robot-swarms-trained-to-fetch-and-carry.html\">programmed<\/a> a group of 40 small robots which could organize themselves into a group and work together to solve simple tasks. The robots here are fairly simple &ndash; they can move in any direction and are a few inches in diameter. Even their intelligence is rudimentary.<\/p>\n<p>What is fascinating however is to watch how a simple program can drive them to perform tasks like self-organizing or even move an object.<\/p>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/player.ooyala.com\/player.js?embedCode=JvNG1tYToEYwCbNdkbktQO1dPZPhOGqU&#038;width=620&#038;video_pcode=RvbGU6Z74XE_a3bj4QwRGByhq9h2&#038;height=349&#038;deepLinkEmbedCode=JvNG1tYToEYwCbNdkbktQO1dPZPhOGqU\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The point here is with simple intelligence, each of these robots cannot do that much. Together however they can achieve pretty large feats. A good example of something similar in nature is how incredible ant colonies are working in unison while an individual ant can only accomplish so much.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Nanorobotics\" rel=\"wikipedia noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nanorobotics\" target=\"_blank\">Nanobots<\/a> are in the real-world what nanites are in the world of science-fiction. The amazing thing the video above shows us is you can accomplish much in unison &ndash; even if the individual unit isn&rsquo;t that advanced. In theory this paves the way to program cells with limited intelligence to attack disease or even deliver drugs based on some predetermined parameters.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Motorola_StarTAC\">StarTac<\/a> cellphone was a copy of the original Star Trek communicator, the iPad and other tablets many of my readers use are a copy of tablets seen in Star Trek NGN. Will nanobots or nanites which help heal living-beings be one of the latest technologies predicted by Star Trek? It is certainly early to make such a prediction but it is exciting to entertain the future potential of semi-smart bots performing very intelligent tasks.<a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=42f1cd01-f706-42f4-8822-a3d5188ee8b4\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Star Trek fans who have grown up seeing fictional nanites solving a variety of problems in the human body and beyond, this has to be a very exciting month. Researchers from the Sheffield Centre for Robotics programmed a group of 40 small robots which could organize themselves into a group and work together to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10134"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19025,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10134\/revisions\/19025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}