Funded under the European Commission’s FET (Future and Emerging Technologies) initiative of the IST programme, MICRON set out to build a total of five to ten micro robots, just cubic centimetres in size. one fully functional robot that the project did achieve could be tested in three different scenarios. “The first was a medical or …
Nanorex is showing several new atomically precise designs Nanorex Inc. is the leading provider of computational modeling tools made specifically for the design and analysis of productive nanosystems. Nanorex’s first product, nanoENGINEER-1™, is a 3D nanomechanical CAD program. nanoENGINEER-1, the most powerful nanomechanical engineering software on the planet, is an Open Source (GPL) project sponsored …
In March 2006, LiftPort hopes to set up a HALE system in Utah’s Mars DesertResearch Station and maintain it for three weeks. Then, later in thespring, Laine says he wants to test a 2-mile (3.2-km) tether withrobots scaling to at least half way up. Laine aims to produce a functioning space elevator by 2018 – …
A robotic lifter, measuring 5-foot-6 (170 centimeters) in length, grabbed onto the ribbon and pulled itself up to altitudes of more than 1,500 feet (460 meters), besting the previous record by 500 feet. Laine is gearing up for a test of a different type. In cooperation with the Mars Desert Research Station and a team …
Yongfa Fan, a doctoral student in RIT’s microsystems engineering Ph.D. program, accomplished imaging rendered to 26 nanometers a size previously possible only via extreme ultraviolet wavelength, Smith says. By capturing images that are beyond the limits of classical physics, the breakthrough has allowed resolution to smaller than one-twentieth the wavelength of visible light, he adds. …
Georgia Tech researchers have created a highly sensitive atomic forcemicroscopy (AFM) technology capable of high-speed imaging 100 timesfaster than current AFM. This technology could prove invaluable formany types of nano-research, in particular for measuringmicroelectronic devices and observing fast biological interactions onthe molecular scale, even translating into movies of molecularinteractions in real time. It can scan …
Advanced Nanotechnology and conventional future space technologies will be providing vast new capabilities in space over the coming decades. I think a not too high threshhold of space capability is needed to maintain MAD (mutually assured destruction) level deterrence. You send out some 100-1000 ton launcher vehicles. They go and hide on the non-earth facing …
Using near future space based systems like magbeam and eventually nanotechnology (2G acceleration ion solar electric. 3,000t of current batteries or 150t of fuel could accelerate 10t payload to 20 km/s(72000 km/hr). This is the kinetic energy of 10tons at 20km/s is 4 terajoules.(1000tons of TNT equivalent) One megaton is equivalent to 4.18 x 10**15 …
Ray Kurzweil is famous predictor of technology and a millionaire inventor of the music synthesizer and other investions. In the interview he gives some of his rules of thumb on predicting the future of technology. We will increase the price-performance of computing, which is alreadyformidable and deeply influential, by a factor of a billion in …
A press release about the study next gen bioweapons (including nanotech/nanobiotech) is here The newscientist magazine discusses the report as well The online report about about the study next gen bioweapons is here the reports Advanced tech discussion starts here Recommendations are summarized at this link The key recommendation is: the entire scientific community should …
Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory, in collaboration with researchers from the University of Nevada, Reno, Ludwig-Maximilian-University in Germany, and the Max-Planck-Institute for Quantum Optics in Germany, have developed a new method for using a laser beam to accelerate ions. The novel method may enable important advances in compact ion accelerators, medical physics and inertial …