If these become nanobots that convert the world to grey goo, I will kick they ass
Tiny robot walker made from DNA
Scientists have created a microscopic walking robot using only the building blocks of life: DNA.
The tiny walker is only 10 nanometres long and has been described as a major step forward in nanotechnology.
A New York University team created the robot using DNA legs that move along a footpath, which is also based on DNA.
The legs move by detaching themselves from the footpath, moving along it and then reattaching themselves, New Scientist reports.
DNA is an ideal material to build the robot from, because DNA chains easily pair up.
By re-ordering the sequence of base pairs that make up the DNA strand, the scientists were able to control where each strand attached.
"What we've done is to build a sidewalk to accommodate one step and we've demonstrated quantitatively that [the robot] can take a second step," Professor Nadrian Seeman of New York University told BBC News Online.
