A nanofactory is a proposed system in which nanomachines (resembling molecular assemblers, or industrial robot arms) would combine molecules to build larger atomically precise parts. These, in turn, would be assembled by positioning mechanisms of assorted sizes to build macroscopic (visible) but still atomically-precise products.
A functioning nanofactory could create virtually any product at the cost of only the input raw material and energy.
Molecular Assembly is a term I read about yesterday on my favorite website - here.
It is a website by Ray Kurzweil.
Basically, a whole group of scientists are starting to work on a "nanofactory" - which will build physical objects with atomic precision. The theory was worked out a couple of decades ago, and there has been continuous work on developing the basic design and engineering concepts of such a nano-machine.
Molecular assembly will no doubt change the world once the process is perfected. Basically, as far as I understand it - it all comes down to intelligence - or the software program which takes the engineering designs for any product and sets the machine in motion.
The machine consists of millions of tiny, very tiny robot assemblers (arms) which place feeder stock (atoms from carbon or dirt or whatever) into chemical bonded blocks - ever growing larger as the process continues. These nanoblocks turn into whatever the engineering design calls for - be it a computer or a cell phone or a bicycle - basically - anything that is made up of atoms.
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Molecular Assembly is a term I read about yesterday on my favorite website -