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'It's like painting with atoms'... Watch how boffins form armies of simple micron-sized bots from a silicon wafer

Jemma

Nought to

Emergent behaviour in 18 months..

/mines the one with the Crichton M.Cs patch

Or

Theranos II: the Search for (more) Funding

Or

Catatonic Park

Let's all just hope their assemblers used to work for Austin-Rover.. Am I right?

And you just *know* they'll be running Windows CE for Nanotechnology - what could possibly go wrong?

Sam Carter, come on down!

Translation table.

Proof of concept. : disaster waiting to happen

FDA approved. : We photoshopped someone else's certification

Completely harmless. : they'll kill or maim *how* many?

Of course they can't reproduce. : ...arrgh; gurgle.

And I'm taking bets on how long it'll be before some bored tech starts using these to make miniscule ascii art..

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