The thought of microscopic robots traveling through your body may seem like a science
fiction novel from the 1960’s but, in the next decade or so, it may become science fact. Imagine
clogged arteries being swept clean, cancer cells detected and destroyed and kidney stones being
dissolved, all done by minute robots, eliminating the need for costly and invasive surgery. These
are just some of the possible applications of nanotechnology in medicine, also known as
nanomedicine. Nanomedicine can dramatically improve medicine and healthcare beyond our
imagination.
Nanotechnology was first mentioned in 1959 in a talk given by physicist Richard Feynman.
Although he did not use the term, he described a process by which a pair of normal sized robot
arms would build a copy of itself that was one tenth its size. That pair of arms would continue
the process and so on until the arms reached the size of a molecule. (Patel 63)
This would be the level of nanotechnology. Nano comes from the Greek word meaning
“dwarf”. A nanometer is one billionth of a meter and when we speak of nanotechnology we are
speaking of devices in the 1 to 100 nanometer scale. To help visualize how small that is, a germ
is about 1000 nm wide, a human hair is about 100,000 nm wide. (Marchant, G. E. 231)
The scanning tunneling microscope, invented in 1981 by Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer,
allowed humans to see individual atoms. Binnig and Rohrer both worked as physicists for the
computer company IBM. The atomic force microscope was invented a few years later which
allowed the user to actually move atoms by using a feeler with an extremely small, sharp needle
on the end which allows it to see and move the atoms by f...
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and we will be able to create our own virtual realities that will integrate all our senses, expanding
our intelligence in ways we cannot imagine. Nanomedicine will give rise to AI by giving
humans extremely detailed scans and diagrams of the human brain and how it functions.
Eventually, AI will be able to think and have emotional responses thanks to the info gathered by
Nanobots. The two technologies will feed off one another resulting in a world that may be more
wild than any science fiction novel ever written. (Kurzweil 40-46)
It is clear that nanotechnology has the potential to revolutionize health care and even transport
humanity into the next evolutionary leap, but great care must be taken in order make sure we get
there safely. Once technology becomes smarter than humanity, we may not be able to control our
destiny any longer.
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In the article “Pinpointing Cancer Fight,” Liz Szabo states the uses of nanotechnology and how researchers are attempting to use this advancement to fight cancer. She defines that nanotechnology is a type of technology that creates devices on an atomic level; this equipment can allow people such as researchers to use its ability to detect cancerous cells as well as treat them. Szabo remains a neutral tone as she states that while some are against the idea of using nanotechnology since there are many risks, others are optimistic that it may lead to transformational results. She presents a list of some products developed through nanotechnology and explains its usage in addition to mentioning the failure of those nanotech products. Szabo provides
“A new (but yet unproven) theory proposes that all matter—from the page of this book to the skin of a peach—consists of tiny loops of vibrating strings. String (or Superstring) Theory,
Nanotechnology is the manipulation of structures at nano levels. It uses incredibly small materials, devices, and systems to manipulate matter. These structures are measured in nanometers, or one billionth of a meter, and can be used by themselves or as part of larg...
...y within a medical setting has stepped away from the shadows and into a brighter future with the development of the da Vinci Surgical System in the medical world. Before the surgical robot, doctors or surgeons would have had to make several incisions to their patient’s body, which would cause the patients recovery to be elongated and possibly painful. The da Vinci Surgical System allows surgeons to make smaller, less visible incisions to the patient’s body and have a better precision during the procedure. Throughout several years, surgeons relied on their typical laparoscopic surgery to be able to provide patients with the procedures that required them to make large incisions through the patient’s abdomen. Nowadays, surgeons and their patients can have a sigh of relief because the surgical robot provides surgeons with the precision that they long strived for.
Artificial Intelligence played a crucial role in our American history and the history of the world. Some view it as the vain pursuit of man to become god-like and create life, others, as the next logical step in computer technology. However, the conclusion is not nearly the most important part of it. The process of the pursuit of the creation of mechanical sentient life has also led to a much deeper understanding of how our own biological minds work, creating new methods to treat brain diseases, and other brain related disorders. Through this, life is longer sustained, but modern life itself would not exist without some AI programs today. Several AI programs control the stock market, and the military has countless uses for it, and we even rely on it at home. AI has advanced greatly since it began, bringing neurology with it, and modern America could not function today without it.
As our research into science and technology ever increases its seems inevitable that in the near future Artificial Intelligent machines will exist and become part of our everyday life such as we see with modern computers today.
Scientific progress makes huge milestones toward developing new advanced technologies which are more and more present in human lives. Today robots replace people in many spheres such as health care, security and military, industry, education, entertainment and science. Role of robots becomes more significant because they are able to do the job which people are not able to perform well. Sometimes people are too lazy to do some routine work, due to such situation those tasks could be delegated to machines. People’s life become more technology based what makes demand for efficient robots larger. Engineers say that today robots look like machines, but in near future robots will have more human appearance, today they do some simple job, but in near future much more complicated tasks would be trusted to them. History of robotics goes far to the history when the ancient Greeks describes first devices that people were projected to fly to the sky like birds. In fact, heart of any robot is some program that direct the device and control it actions. Robot cannot perform the tasks that was not programmed in it and this if the factor what makes it quite limited in its actions. Current studies in robotics are aimed to remove those disadvantages and make robots more functional and universal through development of artificial intelligence that can operate independently. Curiosity of world community to robotics increase every day what make all the research and inventions in robotics more demanded. History of robots, resent achievement and future perspectives of robotics have to be studies and researched to understand what machines can give to humanity and what pros and cons exist in the r...
Most of the day the human mind is taking in information, analyzing it, storing it accordingly, and recalling past knowledge to solve problems logically. This is similar to the life of any computer. Humans gain information through the senses. Computers gain similar information through a video camera, a microphone, a touch pad or screen, and it is even possible for computers to analyze scent and chemicals. Humans also gain information through books, other people, and even computers, all of which computers can access through software, interfacing, and modems. For the past year speech recognition software products have become mainstream(Lyons,176). All of the ways that humans gain information are mimicked by computers. Humans then proceed to analyze and store the information accordingly. This is a computer's main function in today's society. Humans then take all of this information and solve problems logically. This is where things get complex. There are expert systems that can solve complex problems that humans train their whole lives for. In 1997, IBM's Deep Blue defeated the world champion in a game of chess(Karlgaard, p43). Expert systems design buildings, configure airplanes, and diagnose breathing problems. NASA's Deep Space One probe left with software that lets the probe diagnose problems and fix itself(Lyons).
Humans have developed a wonderful fascination with artificial intelligence since it first introduced to the world in the 1950’s. The Merriam-Webster defined Artificial Intelligence as “a branch of computer science dealing with the simulation of intelligent behavior in computers.” Another definition is “the capability of a machine to imitate intelligent human behavior.” Computer science was cool on its own but to incorporate human intelligence into it sounded like a ground breaking idea. There would be no limit to what humans can do with intelligent machines and computer programming. In the 1950s this type of technology seemed far beyond a scientists’ lifetime but almost 70 years later, scientists/researchers are able to have artificial as part
It is fascinating that non-living things can think reason, plan, solve problems, and perceive, just like humans can. Robots and systems became sentient beings that were self-aware, going against their defining trait (that robots and machines lack emotion).
Figure 1: Image of the nanoscale, this illustration shows how small things at the nanoscale really are (nano.gov, 2013).
Nanotechnology includes nanorobots which are so small that they can be injected into the human bloodstream after which the nanorobots can do investigations or repair at cellular level. Nanorobots could optimize the delivery of pharmaceutical products, these means that medicines which are targeted on a specific type of cells can be delivered to only those cells by the nanorobots. The robots can attach to the cells after which they can inject the drug into the target cells. This could be a great breakthrough for cancer treatments such as chemotherapy because there is a minimal chance of injecting healthy cells with the drug and therefor negative side effects can be avoided.
The surgeons are supported by these robots in acquiring adequate achievement. They facilitate proper surgical actions on visible objects. Robotic surgery maintains the accuracy of tissue manipulation even in far decayed areas of the body, which are usually unfeasible in classical open surgery. Analyses examining the impact of surgical interference (involving the size and position of cuts) support the advantageous results of robotic surgery (Gundeti, 2012). According to Pinkerton (2013), robotic surgeries across the globe were at most 1,000 in 2000.
Robots always had a special place in mankind’s heart. There has always been an aura of mystery and discovery surrounding them. What is a robot? Wikipedia defines it as “an automatically guided machine which is able to do tasks on its own.” That is a good definition of a robot, but there are few exceptions too.