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Nanobots are the workhorses of the nano-manufacturing world. They are, as the name implies, nanometer-scale robots that use tiny arms to pick up and move atoms and tiny electronic brains to direct the process. There are two basic types of nanobots: general assemblers and a special class of assemblers known as self-replicators...
...everyone else), Harvard's Springfest featured one major act-swing band Big Bad Voodoo Daddy-which followed about four hours and five bands worth of Harvard talent. I was lucky enough to catch a glimpse of just about every band, which included Fink Fank Funk, S. Ocean, Nano, Jeff Heck, 98% and Mika Pauley, each offering a unique music style to balance the deluge of swing that was to come...
...favorites? Honestly the crowd seemed focused more on learning how to juggle or attacking the free barbeque tables until Nano stepped up on stage. Their opening rendition of the familiar "Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You" with a slightly catchier beat won the attention of the crowd. As the band drew in an audience, lead singer and songwriter Nathaniel Whitman '02 (affectionately known as Nano) picked up on the crowd's energy and proved that this band has stage presence. With Pete Kennedy '03 on drums, guitarist Joe Linhart '03, Jon Wallace (a Tufts first-year) on bass...
...started making just one toolkit that will help others develop real nano-technologies," Kim said. "This is just a first step...
Such are the dreams of the nanotechnologists, engineers at places like M.I.T., Princeton University and Carnegie Mellon, who are already redefining the meaning of the word miniature. The prefix nano- refers to a billionth part of a unit--the size range these visionaries are talking about. Already, nanotechnologists have built gears and rotors far thinner than a human hair and tiny molecular "motors" only 50 atoms long...