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February 7, 2003

Slick Nano-Slime

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Carlo Montemagno gave an incredible talk on how his UCLA biomotor group has developed artificial nano-slime (otherwise known as actin-based nanorobotic systems). Heavy into biomimetics (mimicking nature) he has developed a working model that shows real promise. After having tried to design nanosystems for almost a decade, he finally turned to nature's rules: local communication, no central processing, fully distributed, and stupid agents that follow simple rules. Check out the videos!

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