Nanorobot. Artwork of a nanorobot (at upper left) removing a blockage of plaque (grey) from the wall of a human blood vessel. The nanorobot is using rotary blades to break up the blockage and sucking the fragments into nozzles. Around the robot are disk-shaped red blood cells. At right is the tip of the hypodermic needle used to inject the robot into the blood vessel. This type of robot,only 0.1 mm long,is a possible application of nano- technology to medicine. Plaque forms on the insides of arteries to cause atherosclerosis,restricting the flow of blood to vital organs. Nanotechnology is the science of constructing machines from microscopic components | |
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