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Re:The Commerce Department is considering national security ... by philipkglass on Wednesday January 02, 2019 @12:41AM (#18804411)
It also names "visualization" and "molecular robotics" as (non-AI) representative technology categories. It includes the specific, the absurdly general, and the so-far-imaginary among its categories. The Federal Register publication is not very enlightening and I can't tell if the NYT story is based on anything more than that publication.
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Re:The Commerce Department is considering national security ... by ggggtez on Wednesday January 02, 2019 @01:41AM (#18804611)
I'm assuming "molecular robotics" is intended to cover CRISPR-like technologies.
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Re:The Commerce Department is considering national security ... by philipkglass on Wednesday January 02, 2019 @01:51AM (#18804640)
There's a separate section for biotechnology. Molecular robotics is listed under robotics along with smart dust and swarming technology.
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Re:The Commerce Department is considering national security ... by hahabrew on Wednesday January 02, 2019 @01:54AM (#18804653)
molecular robotics in a colloquial sense would cover any mechanichal process that is implemented at the molecular level of organization, this would include any sort of sequence determination; construction; or modification -- meaning most of any biotech, and nanotech. Seeing that btech is a separate matter is interesting.
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