Sentences with phrase «tiny machines»

Whilst building and operating such tiny machine is extremely complex, the techniques used by the team are based on simple chemical processes.

And imagine what we could do by sending tiny machines into hard - to - reach places.

The gimmick here is that the enemy Terminator is composed of tiny machine working in tandem, which means it can come apart and reassemble at will.

For this task, Krishnan had a solution: Her lab builds tiny machines out of DNA.

A new type of all - terrain microbot that moves by tumbling could help usher in tiny machines for various applications.

Atom by atom, we'll assemble tiny machines that will enter cell walls and make repairs.

Researchers have also been able to coat their DNA objects with plastics, metals, and other materials to fashion tiny machine components, electronics, and photonic devices.

This week's episode focuses on developments in «microbot technology,» or efforts to create tiny machines that may someday heal the human body without the need for surgery.

Materials scientists working to build tiny machines called microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) struggle with surface interactions, called van der Waals forces, that can make nanomaterials sticky to the point of permanent adhesion, a phenomenon known as «stiction».

Our cells depend on thousands of proteins and nucleic acids that function as tiny machines: molecules that build, fold, cut, destroy, and transport all of the molecules essential for life.

The 1966 movie â $ œFantastic Voyageâ $ presented a vision of the future that includes tiny machines gliding through the body and repairing injuries.

Tiny cars racing across the tops of tables in various themes, pool tables, sinks, breakfast benches and through all kinds of messes, billiard balls, paper clips, spilt milk, cereal and sandwich spreads, trying to be the best tiny machine there was.

A new generation of tiny machines are in a super position to unlock the mysteries of quantum mechanics

Neuroengineers have long dreamed of building tiny machines that could restore that flow.

The first step toward building such tiny machines was taken by Jean - Pierre Sauvage in 1983, when he linked two ring - shaped molecules together to form a chain, allowing one component to move freely around the other.

Each cell is like a tiny machine, more advanced than anything modern science or engineering could even dream of.

Recently came the most startling demonstration yet: a tiny machine powered purely by information, which chilled metal through the power of its knowledge.

They are particularly interested in creating systems in which microswimmers could assemble gears to build a tiny machine and then power it, Aronson said.

This tiny machine is no small feat.

Other researchers are trying to harnass the machinery of cells to produce a new generation of tiny machines that could do useful work in the body.

This duplicitous state can allow multitasking at an astounding rate, which could exponentially increase the computing capacity of a tiny, tiny machine.

You might think that they would look like miniature versions of machines we know, so if you were building a tiny machine that was going to move around in the bloodstream and look for cancerous cells, it might look like a little submarine.

In a new study, published online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers used a laser vibrometer — a tiny machine that hits the bee hair with a laser — to measure how the hair on a bee's body responds to a flower's tiny electric field.

Furthermore these tiny machines would repair and maintain the human body from the inside out, making humans virtually immortal.

Additionally, tiny machines could transport drugs through the bloodstream precisely to where they are required.

Together with colleagues from the USA, scientists from the University of Bonn and the research institute Caesar in Bonn have used nanostructures to construct a tiny machine that constitutes a rotatory motor and can move in a specific direction.

After two decades of basic research on designing tiny artificial machines in test tubes, the field has recently reached a new milestone where the functionality of these tiny machines was evaluated in live bodies.

These tiny machines are expected to revolutionize many aspects of technology and medicine, leading eventually to major improvements in the quality of our lives.

Tiny machines like nanorockets are ideal candidates for drug delivery in the human body.

In contrast, a tiny machine unveiled this year jiggles in ways explicable only by the weird rules of quantum mechanics, which ordinarily govern molecules, atoms, and subatomic particles.

Unlike today's robotic surgeons, these tiny machines may make some of their own decisions (see «The rise of the miniature medical robots»).

Mintmire, however, notes that developing an atomic actuator could be fraught with difficulties, since surface friction on the nanoscale would make controlling such a tiny machine difficult.

The tiny machines, or nanomachines, are a brand - new invention.

The research could lead to the creation of some of the tiniest machines mankind has ever seen.

Abstract: Together with colleagues from the USA, scientists from the University of Bonn and the research institute Caesar in Bonn have used nanostructures to construct a tiny machine that constitutes a rotatory motor and can move in a specific direction.

For now, these tiniest of tiny machines have no commercial application in electronics, biological sensing or anything else.

DNA is not necessarily the most durable material for building a tiny machine.

Eight years later Stoddart, then at the California NanoSystems Institute / Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, was a keynote speaker at the 11th Foresight Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology, speaking on «Meccano on the NanoScale: A Blueprint for Making Some of the World's Tiniest Machines ``.

An unusual, but beautiful sight can be found among the figures of a recent scientific paper about some of the tiny machines in our brain: watercolor...

Our idea is to develop molecular structures (tiny machines) that would interact with specific proteins on the surfaces of these cells and stimulate them in response to light that enters the eye.

After only one minute on this tiny machine I thought my legs were going to explode.

Those were the golden days, when my iPhone felt like a tool at my disposal versus a tiny machine running my entire life.

Future plans for micro: bit - the tiny machine that helps pupils engage with coding

Expect the new Smart ForTwo to be unveiled in March 2014 at the Geneva Car Show, and click past the jump for a closer look at this tiny machine testing somehwere warm.

The tiny machine contains perfect ports of classic games such as The Legend of Zelda, Bubble Bobble, Excitebike, and Super Mario Bros 3, all faultless recreations of their original cartridge releases.

Hybridized places emerge, white space mimics the frames of our tiny machines.

In the future, these tiny machines could be deployed in large quantities to clean up oil spills.

The tiny machines are able to absorb and transport oil droplets in water, meaning they could be our next go - to solution for cleaning up oil spills.

It's hard to define the specific appeal of a tiny machine packed with just as much polygon - pushing power as something much bigger, but it's undeniable.