Gemstone based medical nanobot
This page is about diamondoid (or other gemstone based) nano-robots for medical purposes.
Medical nanobots must not be confused with molecular assemblers.
For medical nanobots there is
neither a need (for the very difficult to achieve capability)
nor a desire (for the often as extremely dangerous perceived capability)
of autonomous self replication within a biological body.
(Being it a human, animal, or plant.)
A series of books has been written on the topic
by Robert A. Freitas Jr. (the Nanomedicine book series).
Advances gemstone based medical nanobots will likely be a product of
advanced productive nanosystems like gemstone metamaterial on chip factories.
So stated even by Robert Freitas himself. (wiki-TODO: Find and link that video interview.)
Contents
Examples
- "Respirocyte" … a specialized highly potent oxygen delivery nanobot for the bloodstream
- Some nanobots for cleaning out arteriosclerosis in blood vessels and even lining and eventually replacing them.
- many more ...
Challenges
Biocompatibility:
Diamondoid (or gemstone based) materials and biological materials are very different.
So getting them designed such that there is …
- no undesired immune response and such that
- they interoperate well across the technology difference barrier
… will require quite some design ingenuity.
Proteins in diamond-nanomachinery (more generally: foldamers in gemstones) – not vice versa
This page is about integration of biological things like
proteins into diamondoid medical nanobot systems. Not vice versa.
Vice versa (integrating disjunct gemstone based nanomachinery into foldamer based medical nanbots)
may be relevant in the context of early bootstrapping stages in pathways within the incremental path.
Related
External links
- Wikipedia: Robert_Freitas
- Wikipedia: Nanomedicine (this page covers more near term soft nanotechnology approaches)
