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.)

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
• …

External links

• Wikipedia: Robert_Freitas
• Wikipedia: Nanomedicine (this page covers more near term soft nanotechnology approaches)