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Cryptizard t1_j68ycty wrote

Reply to comment by Sashinii in Myth debunked: Myths about nanorobots by kalavala93

You need something the size of an atom that is more rigid/more manipulatable than atoms. Too bad everything is made of atoms so there is no such thing.

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Sashinii t1_j68ytdx wrote

As I've already said: the scanning tunneling microscope moves single atoms, and that's a technology that's existed for decades, so what you're saying is wrong.

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Cryptizard t1_j68z6z9 wrote

I don’t think you know how a STM works.

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Sashinii t1_j6905b3 wrote

I'm well aware of how scanning tunneling microscopy works.

Here's a quote from the article "Atom Manipulation with the Scanning Tunneling Microscope":

"Manipulation of single atoms with the scanning tunneling microscope is made possible through the controlled and tunable interaction between the atoms at the end of the STM probe tip and the single atom (adatom) on a surface that is being manipulated. In the STM tunneling junction used for atom manipulation, a host of interactions that depend on the electric potentials between the sample and probe tip, the tunneling current, and tip-adatom distance come into play in the atom manipulation process".

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