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Nanotechnology the building of devices on a
molecular scale. Micromachines, such as gears
smaller in diameter than a human hair, have
been made at the AT&T Bell laboratories in
New Jersey, USA. Building large molecules
with useful shapes has been accomplished by
research groups in the USA. A robot small
enough to travel through the bloodstream and
into organs of the body, inspecting or
removing diseased tissue, was under
development in Japan 1990.
Subject by: Shaun Jay