Wrong.

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996474

Duh, haven't you read Timeline?

Yay for technology! But what happens if it breaks down?

So we're getting closer to those nano machines like in Metal Gear Solid?

Sounds a little flimsy, yet. It'll take a few years.

I imagine it'd pass through the digestive system like any other particle inserted into the body. Even if it didn't break down, how would you get it out of the body?
There's only one way it's going to come you..

You mean Prey, right?

How would something get from your circulatory system into your digestive system...? Like, cells maybe, but it's a submarine. Worst comes to worst they can always cut you open and take it out that way.

The book? Awesome.

The movie? Horrible. Although I never saw it, the commercials made it look crappy enough.

It's still 3 mm long, which is many orders of magnitude larger than a nanobot.

The thing that's bothered me about nanobots; how would there be enough room to program the damn thing?

I suppose it could be filtered out using a machine similiar to a dialysis machine if necessary. but they'd probably make it so that it won't hurt you if it stays in the blood stream. or they could make it to where if it breaks it puts out some kind of signal/chemical that makes the white blood cells go crazy and attack it, breaking it down like any bacteria or virus you get.

Er, yeah, I meant Prey. Oops!

I think they need to make a movie with the quantam stuff used in Timeline (the book), that is to say, not some wormhole BS that was in timeline the movie, actually explain the process of how quantum technology is used, and why it exists, and the other technical stuff (I cna't remember it all). Then they need to combine that stuff with nanotechnology stuff like in Prey. Possibilities are...huge. They could make like quantum teleporting nanobots or something.

I was at a talk by Dr. Whitesides (he got the national medal of science amonst other things). Anyway, part of his talk was about various "machines" running on this level to do things like that. Another part was about the impractibilities of have nano-machine and organisms that would eventually take over the world. Anyway, I didn't get most of it, but it at least sounded interesting.

I'm kinda half asleep as I read these, and I just glanced over the thread title, and thought it read "Tiny Rbots in your bloodstream..."

As long as I don't turn green and grow a pair of antennas, as I understand it.

Nanobots aren't really like robots that we're used to, they're more like proteins.

I think they've already "teleported" subatomic particles (or rather, teleported the information contained within the subatomic particles and exchanged it with the information within another particle). This is done via coherent light fields, nuclear spins, and trapped ions, using the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen effect. It's going to be incredibly useful in quantum computer networking.

You'll be dissapointed to learn that 'teleporting' more than one subatomic particle at a time isn't going to be possible any time in the forseeable, for a variety of engineering reasons. However, the concept itself doesn't violate any fundemental law..

Just curious but when you consider that fact that the body attacks anything that enters it that doesn't share it's DNA make-up, the nanobots might not be able to function when white cells keep trying to eat them. I'm basing this on the fact that kidney transplants are tricky because the donor has to have a similar DNA structure as the patient because if it's to foreign, the body will simply eat the kidney. Eww!

I think the white blood cells might have a hard time eating a robot with concussive heat blasts.