Will tiny robots build diamonds one atom at a time?
They will be building everything else, so why not diamonds? Nanobots, as they are called, are tiny machines with "fingers" that are 50,000 times thinner than a human hair. They will be building our cars one molecule at a time, invading our bloodstream to declog our arteries, and replicating themselves thousands of times over. One potential problem with nanotechnology-what if the robots don't stop reproducing?
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