Category:Nanofactory

From Wise Nano

A nanofactory is a system for making large products using molecular manufacturing. It would combine huge numbers of mechanosynthetic fabricators with a convergent assembly or other type of assembly system. It was first suggested by Eric Drexler in Nanosystems. Ralph Merkle published several papers on it in the mid 1990's. Chris Phoenix published an analysis of physical layout, mass, power requirements, fault tolerance, and several other parameters of a convergent assembly nanofactory in 2003, and concluded that even a relatively primitive design could probably build a duplicate nanofactory in well under a day.

These are not nanotechnology "bootstrap" systems - all assume the existence of fairly sophisticated nanotech components, such as nanoblock fabricators or nanorobots.