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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A microscopic robot built from nanoscale components, typically 0.1 to 10 micrometers in length.
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- noun robotics A very small
autonomous robot , typically the size of abiological cell , designed to workalone or in very large numbers toachieve sometask . Not yet in practical use.
Etymologies
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Duke (Channing Tatum) and Ripcord (Marlon Wayans) are entrusted with delivering a new 'nanobot' weapon created by arms merchant McCullen (a terrifically scenery-chewing Christopher Eccleston).
Scott Mendelson: Huff Post Review - GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009) 2009
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Nanotechnology is likely to have revolutionary implications for medicine (imagine a "nanobot" no more than a few atoms in size, programmed to deliver chemotherapy drugs directly to a specific cell).
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What’ll happen is that sometime in the next iteration of the gaming cycle, some developer-fan will take the basic ideas without purchasing the property, and give you credit by calling the nanobot ammo material “scalzon” or something.
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Smoke Monster was in fact a kind of nanobot cloud similar to the one featured in Michael
Obsessed With Film 2010
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"Re-Mission" has players navigate a "nanobot" through the insides of a human body and shoot at cancer cells.
Forbes.com: News Oliver J. Chiang 2010
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"Re-Mission" has players navigate a "nanobot" through the insides of a human body and shoot at cancer cells.
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The government has secretly been adding nanobot tramsmitters into your Cheetos for a year now.
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Agent Jack's skull, as well as his whole head, has been replaced by a virtually unbreakable Omnisensor helmet, while Agent Jill's skeletal and muscular systems have been replaced by a techno-organic frame and a highly adaptive nanobot armor.
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At that point, for all anyone knew, it was entirely plausible that aliens might have set up a nanobot workshop right under our noses.
Friends in high places « Haikasoru: Space Opera. Dark Fantasy. Hard Science. 2009
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In the case of those people who have been identified as not returning thier forms or filling in the wrong information despite having the nanobot markerlights on their hands/face/whathaveyou immediatly a crack team of elite census buracrats will desend from black helocoppters (they run silent to, niffty things those) and force you to pay a postage fine of up to and including
chained_bear commented on the word nanobot
with thanks to sionnach for the suggestion.
October 28, 2007
bilby commented on the word nanobot
"Humans and machines would eventually merge, by means of devices embedded in people's bodies to keep them healthy and improve their intelligence, predicted Mr Kurzweil.
'We'll have intelligent nanobots go into our brains through the capillaries and interact directly with our biological neurons,' he told BBC News.
The nanobots, he said, would 'make us smarter, remember things better and automatically go into full emergent virtual reality environments through the nervous system'.
- 'Machines to match man by 2029', Helen Briggs on BBC website, 19 Feb 2008.
April 1, 2008
reesetee commented on the word nanobot
The idea of nanobots both fascinates me and gives me a case of the howling fantods.
April 1, 2008
sionnach commented on the word nanobot
Prince Charles shares your horror of nanobots, r_t. Specifically, he worries about their degeneration into [
grey goo.
April 1, 2008
bilby commented on the word nanobot
'full emergent virtual reality environments' sounds gooey enough already.
April 1, 2008
reesetee commented on the word nanobot
Wow. I hadn't been letting myself think that far ahead. Now my fantods are howling even more loudly.
April 1, 2008
PantherPez commented on the word nanobot
A nano scale robot
June 9, 2009