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Nanorobotic Morphing Tessellations

Title says it all.
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Vast assemblies of nanorobots adhere in tessellated arrangements. The tessellations change with digitally controlled changes in the overall structure of the individual bots. With changing tessellations come changes in the macroscopic surface properties of the assembly, including rigidity, coefficient of friction, viscosity, heat capacity, phase, and general utility in a dynamic environment.
daseva, Jul 22 2005

SCIgen http://punitive-sur...610.D.+A.+Seva.html
Should have used this, saved yourself some effort. [waugsqueke, Jul 22 2005]

Like this living ant bridge? http://www.omgjerem...nsterbugs2/ant5.jpg
[ldischler, Jul 27 2005]


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       nay. There's just no other words to describe a tessellation. Its like ahh... a weave?
daseva, Jul 22 2005
  

       Yes OK so you can have a material with dynamic properties dependant on the arrangement of its constituent material(s). Is this a new thought?
pooduck, Jul 22 2005
  

       Boy, they should've had this at the international workshop, instead of all those chemists, physicists and engineers.
Detly, Jul 22 2005
  

       Thanks [waugs], but I get put off reading any tract which begins "We explore new compact communication, which we call Goar."
wagster, Jul 22 2005
  

       Click the "generate another one" link at the top, then.
waugsqueke, Jul 22 2005
  

       I don't get this. I mean I get the idea but there isn't really an invention. Maybe if there was a suggestion at what a nano-liquid could be used for or something...
pooduck, Jul 27 2005
  

       That's true but I'm sure this theory has been baked already. I know I read something similar to this in "Prey" by Michael Crichton, but I'm sure I heard it somewhere else too.
pooduck, Jul 27 2005
  

       I wish I could hang out and play, but my pedagogical content knowlege is apparently lacking.
moPuddin, Jul 29 2005
  


 

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