DUKE UNIVERSITY COMPUTER SCIENTISTS CREATE INVISIBLE ROBOTS
Durham, North Carolina. Microscopic Controllable Robots Fit On The Head Of A Pin. Bruce Donald at Duke University along with neurobiologist Richard Mooney and physicist Gleb Finkelstein have created microrobots that are totally steerable and that may eventually explore brain tissue to help find out how the human brain works. It isn’t quite the “Fantastic Voyage” science fiction movie yet but it isn’t far removed. Large groups of these microrobots are now controllable. Professor Ronald Fearing, who runs a microrobotics lab at the University of California at Berkeley, likens what Bruce and his team are doing to “shrinking a factory to the size of a computer chip.” Other specific uses for this technology are not clear but are probably vast and far reaching.
So, what has this to do with real estate. Nothing and everything. If it was nothing it would be worth mentioning just because of how interesting it is. However, there are a multitude of diverse programs in many different fields now in progress throughout the Triangle. They draw talented people from all across the nation and all over the world to this area. The kind of brain power this takes fuels the engine of the technology machine that is the Research Triangle. All of these people need a place to live and that creates the need for more and more homes, townhomes, condos and apartments. Just today a met a gentleman who is in the business of designing golf courses. There is a never ending supply of interesting people doing interesting things. That’s what keeps my juices boiling and I hope that these things are a source of fasination and interest to you as well.
John Fish (919) 696-3474 Email: Marvmax@mindspring.com Website: www.JohnFish.com
