Abstract:
From the beginning, CRN has been saying that nanotechnology will lead to 'molecular manufacturing', which is a kind of manufacturing that is: Nanoscale: able to build working devices just a few nanometers wide; Digital: atomically precise and reliable; Programmable and general-purpose: makes it easy to design a wide range of products; Autoproductive: can build its own manufacturing systems. A technology with all these capabilities would create a manufacturing revolution.