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Meet the nano-spiders: The DNA robots that could one day be walking through your body
By Daily Mail Reporters
Last updated at 2:48 AM on 15th May 2010
Scientists have created microscopic robots out of DNA molecules that can walk, turn and even create tiny products of their own on a nano-scale assembly line.
The ground-breaking devices outlined in the journal Nature, could one day lead to armies of surgeon robots that could clean human arteries or build computer components.
In one of the projects a team from New York's Columbia University created a spider bot just four nanometres across. This is about 100,000 times smaller than the diameter of a human hair.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...NA-robots-day-walking-body.html#ixzz0o4HiqXbF
That's very cool. :dance: