Our sister site keeps up with the plainly-visible automated machines that are precursors to The Robot Apocalypse. But what about the microscopic machines that the T900s will be working with? At right in the picture above is a Top Fuel dragster. To the left is a nanodragster; the red guys in the foreground are the front wheels, and the chassis runs to the rear axle and wheels. <\/p>\n Powered by heat or an electric field and running on a path of gold dust, the nanodragster is an exercise in how best to create machines one atom at a time. Eventually, entire clouds of such contraptions will be put to work If you’re waiting to see how it does the quarter-mile, you might want to leave your request in a time capsule: moving at .0005 inches <\/em>per hour, it will run the quarter in about 127,000 days. That means we can still outrun them. For now.<\/p>\n [Source: Live Science<\/a>]<\/p>\n Nanodragster is 50,000 times thinner than a hair, rides on gold dust<\/a> originally appeared on Autoblog<\/a> on Sat, 23 Jan 2010 09:03:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds<\/a>.<\/p>\n Read<\/a> | Permalink<\/a> | Email this<\/a> | Comments<\/a><\/p>\n![\"Nanodragster\"](\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/d2914_nanodragster.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\ndestroying puny humans<\/strike> building and repairing things from architectural structures to your own internal organs.<\/p>\n<\/h6>\n