Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. robotics A very small autonomous robot, typically the size of a biological cell, designed to work alone or in very large numbers to achieve some task. Not yet in practical use.
Etymologies
- nano- + bot (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Duke (Channing Tatum) and Ripcord (Marlon Wayans) are entrusted with delivering a new 'nanobot' weapon created by arms merchant McCullen (a terrifically scenery-chewing Christopher Eccleston).”
Scott Mendelson: Huff Post Review - GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009)
“Nanotechnology is likely to have revolutionary implications for medicine (imagine a "nanobot" no more than a few atoms in size, programmed to deliver chemotherapy drugs directly to a specific cell).”
“What’ll happen is that sometime in the next iteration of the gaming cycle, some developer-fan will take the basic ideas without purchasing the property, and give you credit by calling the nanobot ammo material “scalzon” or something.”
“Smoke Monster was in fact a kind of nanobot cloud similar to the one featured in Michael”
“Re-Mission" has players navigate a "nanobot" through the insides of a human body and shoot at cancer cells.”
“In the case of those people who have been identified as not returning thier forms or filling in the wrong information despite having the nanobot markerlights on their hands/face/whathaveyou immediatly a crack team of elite census buracrats will desend from black helocoppters (they run silent to, niffty things those) and force you to pay a postage fine of up to and including”
“The government has secretly been adding nanobot tramsmitters into your Cheetos for a year now.”
“Agent Jack's skull, as well as his whole head, has been replaced by a virtually unbreakable Omnisensor helmet, while Agent Jill's skeletal and muscular systems have been replaced by a techno-organic frame and a highly adaptive nanobot armor.”
“At that point, for all anyone knew, it was entirely plausible that aliens might have set up a nanobot workshop right under our noses.”
Friends in high places « Haikasoru: Space Opera. Dark Fantasy. Hard Science.
“Steve Fever" by Greg Egan is a story with an unassuming start (family farm boy named Lincoln yearns to leave for the big city), a semi-mind-blowing premise (that the yearning is due to a nanobot virus designed to resurrect their creator, Steve), and a disappointing ending (Lincoln's role in story ends and Steve's story is left unresolved).”
REVIEW: The Year's Best Science Fiction #25 edited by Gardner Dozois
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘nanobot’.
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recent new scrabble words
these came into effect from 2011
abitur, abiturs, abscisic, achar, achars, acquis, addings, aerobot, aerobots, aguna, agunah, agunot and 1465 more...
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science fact or fiction
pretty open-ended here—terms, ideas, lingo, technologies and phenomena (real or postulated) that are, were, should be or could be used in speculative fiction
tachyon, mecha, dropship, wetware, meatspace, nanobot, cloned meat, asteroid mining, hyperdrive, wormhole, parallel universe, distributed intel... and 468 more...
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Clearinghouse
For stuff to simply reside.
calcar, pinion, espadrille, antipodes, peregrine, cormorant, tanager, vireo, farrago, undervest, passerine, oscine and 881 more...
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End in -ot
Just what it says. Words that end in -ot.
wainscot, ascot, marmot, jot, ocelot, spot, blot, scot, lot, shot, dot, snot and 219 more...
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_mark's list
Words I like!
( personal list, favorite words, randomness )psy, nanobot, success, smack, vibration, microcosmic, springgraph, marksmanship, estranged, homoerotic, flex, fiasco and 1707 more...
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Othernessence
Odd or mysterious beings.
Also check out the automachine list by drusky.ancients, elemental, familiar, cryptid, muse, otherkin, golem, interdimentional, lynx, ghost in the machine, gaia hypothesis, rods and 58 more...
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nanomenclature
nan-biotech, nanoethicist, nanoethics, green goo, ecophagy, grey goo, nanosub, spybot, nanology, nano, nano-objects, nano-art and 22 more...
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words... of the FUTURE
robot, automaton, dirigible, nebula, pangalactic, starscape, terran, photon, graviton, superstring, beep, dome and 54 more...
Tweets
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PantherPez A nano scale robot Jun 9, 2009
reesetee Wow. I hadn't been letting myself think that far ahead. Now my fantods are howling even more loudly. Apr 1, 2008
bilby 'full emergent virtual reality environments' sounds gooey enough already. Apr 1, 2008
sionnach Prince Charles shares your horror of nanobots, r_t. Specifically, he worries about their degeneration into [
grey goo. Apr 1, 2008
reesetee The idea of nanobots both fascinates me and gives me a case of the howling fantods. Apr 1, 2008
bilby "Humans and machines would eventually merge, by means of devices embedded in people's bodies to keep them healthy and improve their intelligence, predicted Mr Kurzweil.
'We'll have intelligent nanobots go into our brains through the capillaries and interact directly with our biological neurons,' he told BBC News.
The nanobots, he said, would 'make us smarter, remember things better and automatically go into full emergent virtual reality environments through the nervous system'.
- 'Machines to match man by 2029', Helen Briggs on BBC website, 19 Feb 2008. Apr 1, 2008
chained_bear with thanks to sionnach for the suggestion. Oct 27, 2007