History Main / NanoMachines

** Neurons are the most basic components of the human nervous system, but they can conduct electricity. They're like highly efficient transistors, but with multiple dendrites and synapses, they each can receive, process, interpret and store a lot of data simultaneously, more than a mere silicon-based transistor can (A silicon microchip is just composed of AND, OR and NOT transistor switches that can't adopt to anything new, a neuron is a true nanite in that it can adopt to anything it learns). In fact, neurons can process 2.5 petabytes. Not only that, they can also produce chemicals (Neurotransmitters) that allows for humans to even have emotion. And the human brain has ''86 billion of them'' connected to over ''100 trillion synapses'', working together in parallel-processing at 1 exaFLOP, which is equivalent to a billion billion calculations per second. This is why we even have intelligence and sentience, why we conquered the world in the first place. This is why every researcher in ArtificialIntelligence now tries to pattern their programming after human biological neurology (see also: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_network Neural Networks]]) and even Deepmind, the world's leading institute in AI, admitted that they can't compare to the power of the Human Brain, the most advanced, Nanite-based supercomputer in the entire world.
** Given these examples, the cell is a complete nanite in the classical sense. Able to consume external resources, duplicate seemingly endlessly, massive data storage (via DNA), the ability to manufacture anything on its to do list etc. Some of the closest stuff to grey goo is bacteria, while most large multicellular organisms are large nanite colonies with hundreds of different types of nanites working in harmony from a single instruction set to form complex machinery (organs) operating an automaton. That's right, forget {{cyborg}}s, ''[[AndThenJohnWasAZombie YOU]]'' [[BioPunk are a nanomechanical robot]].
* This video, depicting [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYxBy_Sz3Wc claytronics.]] This is just a simulation, but it is running off actual software. Using a sort of nanobot programming language, a CAD file gets read in, and the nanobots reshape themselves to match it. The program is supposedly only a couple of pages long. For now this is just software, nothing to worry about -- but the guy who made this video thinks that he will have the hardware to do this in real life within the decade.
* Modifying retroviruses for beneficial uses such as gene therapy can be thought of a bio-nanotechnology. A normal virus injects its DNA into a cell to hijack its protein production. The cell then starts making viruses instead, which repeat the process. A retrovirus however, uses RNA to modify the host cell's DNA permanently. The cell may still undergo normal functions, with the addition of making viruses. This way, when the cell undergoes division, it also creates a cell with the same infected DNA. Biologists even speculate that 5%-8% of modern human DNA is actually retrovirus injections. But in any case, there have been successful trials for using retroviruses in beneficial ways. This is partly why HIV is so hard to get rid of. By the time it manifests itself as AIDS, countless cells already contain its DNA signature.
** The new technology CRISPR even enables hacking, by cutting parts of DNA that are unwanted, then replacing it with another one through a vector, perhaps a retrovirus. The best (or freakiest part depending on your mileage)? CRISPR kits are dirt cheap, and biohacking can be done in a school lab or even the garage.

* Volcano in ''Fanfic/MyHeroAcademiaUnchainedPredator'' has alongside his canon Eruption Quirk, a nanomachine-based quirk gifted to him by All for One, allowing him to dismantle Izuku's Full Gauntlet with effortless ease. Against the Doom Slayer's armor, the nanomachines are rendered useless due to the temperature of the Slayer's suit being hotter than lava, with any attempt to touch it resulting in the nanomachine being incinerated.

* Nanotech is a big part of everyday life in ''WebOriginal/OrionsArm'', sometimes to the extent of replacing all natural microbes in an environment. [[https://orionsarm.com/eg-article/4aae1c18950ae One thing it's not very good for is combat]], unless the group using it has the element of surprise.

** Neurons are the most basic components of the human nervous system, but they can conduct electricity. They're like highly efficient transistors, but with multiple dendrites and synapses, they each can receive and process a lot of data simultaneously, more than a mere silicon-based transistor can (A silicon microchip is just composed of AND, OR and NOT transistor switches that can't adopt to anything new, a neuron is a true nanite in that it can adopt to anything it learns. In fact, neurons can process 2.5 petabytes. Not only that, they can also produce chemicals (Neurotransmitters) that allows for humans to even have emotion. And the human brain has ''86 billion of them'' connected to over ''100 trillion synapses'', working together in parallel-processing at 1 exaFLOP, which is equivalent to a billion billion calculations per second. This is why we even have intelligence and sentience, why we conquered the world in the first place. This is why every researcher in ArtificialIntelligence now tries to pattern their programming after human biological neurology (see also: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_network Neural Networks]]) and even Deepmind, the world's leading institute in AI, admitted that they can't compare to the power of the Human Brain, the most advanced, Nanite-based supercomputer in the entire world.

** Neurons are the most basic components of the human nervous system, but they can conduct electricity. They're like highly efficient transistors, but with multiple dendrites and synapses, they each can receive and process a lot of data simultaneously, more than a mere silicon-based transistor can (A silicon microchip is just composed of AND, OR and NOT transistor switches that can't adopt to anything new, a neuron is a true nanite in that it can adopt to anything it learns. In fact, neurons can process 2.5 petabytes. Not only that, they can also produce chemicals (Neurotransmitters) that allows for humans to even have emotion. And the human brain has ''86 billion of them'' connected to over ''100 trillion synapses'', working together in parallel-processing at 1 exaFLOP. This is why we even have intelligence and sentience, why we conquered the world in the first place. This is why every researcher in ArtificialIntelligence now tries to pattern their programming after human biological neurology (see also: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_network Neural Networks]]) and even Deepmind, the world's leading institute in AI, admitted that they can't compare to the power of the Human Brain, the most advanced, Nanite-based supercomputer in the entire world.

** Neurons are the most basic components of the human nervous system, but they can conduct electricity. They're like highly efficient transistors, but with multiple dendrites and synapses, they each can receive and process a lot of data simultaneously, more than a mere silicon-based transistor can (A silicon microchip is just composed of AND, OR and NOT transistor switches that can't adopt to anything new, a neuron is a true nanite in that it can adopt to anything it learns. In fact, neurons can process 2.5 petabytes. Not only that, they can also produce chemicals (Neurotransmitters) that allows for humans to even have emotion. And the human brain has ''86 billion of them'' connected to over ''100 trillion synapses'', working together in parallel-processing. This is why we even have intelligence and sentience, why we conquered the world in the first place. This is why every researcher in ArtificialIntelligence now tries to pattern their programming after human biological neurology (see also: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_network Neural Networks]]) and even Deepmind, the world's leading institute in AI, admitted that they can't compare to the power of the Human Brain, the most advanced, Nanite-based supercomputer in the entire world.