Okay. The 'head' of the thing looks like there are two nano-sized cameras so this artificial bug may actually be able to see. You would be amazed at what there is in camera technology - the robotic laparoscopic surgery systems have nanocameras on their surgical probe heads that are fantasically small and give the surgeons 3D vision of the surgery site inside a patient. So the technology for making a robobug 'see' exists.
I am aware of military technology that is decades ahead of the commercial market, and this photo is credible to me as real technology. Am not super sure about those wings, but the body looks real. The metal disc looks like a supercapacitor capable of powering the wings - maybe.
We do have nano-power 'nano'computer technology and even limited AI fitting into things at that scale.
Yeah. That 70s one was very crude mechanically, and given 50 years I imagine the flight technology has been much improved. The electronics, for sure, and power technology now packs a lot of energy in low volume. So these things can go farther and be more complicated.
Also, the computer nano tech is now so small it can be put in vaccines, which is why we see vaxed people with Bluetooth IDs in their body now.
My old physics professor Feynman in the 60s funded a contest for primitive micromechanics. The winner was a guy who built a motor the size of a pinhead. They displayed it under a microscope in a case in the physics building hallway. When you pushed a button it ran. The technology evolved into different ways and now, we can make nanosize gyroscopes out of silicon and they are in every phone. Companies like SciTime sell such parts cheap. The military, with money to burn, is doing things straight out of science fiction now.
Dick Feynman was smart but he did stage-manage himself a bit. I was lucky to be there when he gave his lectures. However, the downside was that the physics problems did NOT match the lectures, and the phys recitations were hell. In later years (40 years later!) he issued what amounted to an apology for fucking us over, in the form of 'Feynman's Tips On Physics' explaining what he failed to tell us at the time of the lectures. There are a lot of dirty little secrets about Caltech.
Okay. The 'head' of the thing looks like there are two nano-sized cameras so this artificial bug may actually be able to see. You would be amazed at what there is in camera technology - the robotic laparoscopic surgery systems have nanocameras on their surgical probe heads that are fantasically small and give the surgeons 3D vision of the surgery site inside a patient. So the technology for making a robobug 'see' exists.
I am aware of military technology that is decades ahead of the commercial market, and this photo is credible to me as real technology. Am not super sure about those wings, but the body looks real. The metal disc looks like a supercapacitor capable of powering the wings - maybe.
We do have nano-power 'nano'computer technology and even limited AI fitting into things at that scale.
Yeah. That 70s one was very crude mechanically, and given 50 years I imagine the flight technology has been much improved. The electronics, for sure, and power technology now packs a lot of energy in low volume. So these things can go farther and be more complicated.
Also, the computer nano tech is now so small it can be put in vaccines, which is why we see vaxed people with Bluetooth IDs in their body now.
My old physics professor Feynman in the 60s funded a contest for primitive micromechanics. The winner was a guy who built a motor the size of a pinhead. They displayed it under a microscope in a case in the physics building hallway. When you pushed a button it ran. The technology evolved into different ways and now, we can make nanosize gyroscopes out of silicon and they are in every phone. Companies like SciTime sell such parts cheap. The military, with money to burn, is doing things straight out of science fiction now.
Excuse me, did you just name-drop Richard Feynman as your teacher?! That dude oozes wisdom.
Dick Feynman was smart but he did stage-manage himself a bit. I was lucky to be there when he gave his lectures. However, the downside was that the physics problems did NOT match the lectures, and the phys recitations were hell. In later years (40 years later!) he issued what amounted to an apology for fucking us over, in the form of 'Feynman's Tips On Physics' explaining what he failed to tell us at the time of the lectures. There are a lot of dirty little secrets about Caltech.