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Meeting the Challenge of Building Diamondoid Medical Nanorobots

Institute for Molecular Manufacturing, Palo Alto, CA, USA, rfreitas{at}rfreitas.com

The technologies that are needed for the atomically precise fabrication of diamondoid nanorobots in macroscale quantities at low cost require the development of a new nanoscale manufacturing technology called positional diamondoid molecular manufacturing, enabling diamondoid nanofactories that can build nanorobots. Achieving this new technology will require the significant further development of four closely related technical capabilities: (1) diamond mechanosynthesis1 (2) programmable positional assembly1 (3) massively parallel positional assembly1 and (4) nanomechanical design. The Nanofactory Collaboration is coordinating a combined experimental and theoretical effort involving direct collaboration among dozens of researchers at multiple institutions in four countries to explore the feasibility of positionally controlled mechanosynthesis of diamondoid structures using simple molecular feedstocks, which is the first step along a direct pathway to developing working nanofactories that can fabricate diamondoid medical nanorobots.

Key Words: DMS • mechanosynthesis • nanofactory • nanomedicine • nanorobot • nanorobotics

The International Journal of Robotics Research, Vol. 28, No. 4, 548-557 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/0278364908100501


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