Diatoms have given inspiration to the most impressive nanomachines, what is remaining somewhere in the future.

Diatoms have given inspiration to the most impressive nanomachines, what is remaining somewhere in the future.

In the movies, we are seeing structures, what can fix itself. The idea of those structures is that they are created by using small robots, what is knowing their place in the structure, and the artificial intelligence would control the entirety. In theory, this is not harder than making 3D-puzzles by using a robot hand, but there is one little difference between the puzzle and the self-fixing structure.

The difference is that every part of the structure must move independently, which means that there must be a power source and mechanic parts, which is making it possible to move every each particle in the right place by using microchip controlled systems. And when the particle is in the right place, it must be locked in that point in the structure.

So what kind of robots that system would need? Those robots might have metalcore, and inside it would be the small silicone bag, which is controlled by microchip. In the core would be little holes, which allows the silicone to come out, and move the thing in the place. And then the top of the silicone tuber is the small metal bite, which will allow locking those tubers in the right place to another nanorobot.

But the problem with those nanomachines is they are needed a very large number. If we are thinking of the nanomachines as the builder of structure, we must realize that the size has a mean. If we want to make nanorobots, which can make very complicated and flexible structures, we need a very small machine. And that's why producing those things are really difficult.

Even if we can think of the structure, and how it works, we must realize, that only the huge number of those creatures can make effective structures. When we are thinking about microchip controlled structure, where the silicone bag is covered by metal or carbon fiber core, we must understand that those machines need more than just those structures.

They need also system, which allows the robot to create the tumbler, what is acting like appendages of cells. That means that inside the silicone bag must be a system, that moves the liquid silicone to a certain point, where is the small iron bite, and for that, the system can use extremely small turbines. The controlling system can be computer-controlled. Some of those robots could involve quicksilver, which will allow them to swim in the right place. At first, the quicksilver would be released to the layer, and then the nanomachines would swim to the right places, and then the quicksilver would suck back in the chambers.

And if we would want to make the extremely advanced system, those metal bites might contain the RFID-system, what the miniaturized system can use as the mass memory. Another nanomachine would touch to those metal bites by using a magnet. But as I have written before, this kind of system is complicated to build, because of the small size of its particles. The energy would transfer to those machines by radio signal, but creating those very tiny machines would be very hard. And maybe terminator will be true after a couple of hundred years.