Newsletter Foresight Institute publishes a quarterly newsletter, Foresight Update , to publish the latest news, events, breakthroughs, personalities, policy and announcements related to the field of nanotechnology. Update is available both in a paper version and on Foresight Institute's World Wide Web site. Details of the prize requirements are available on the Foresight World Wide Web site. Foresight Conferences Foresight Institute sponsors a biennial conference established to provide a working forum for both technical and policy issues raised by nanotechnology. Summary Much remains to be accomplished before molecular technology becomes reality, but laboratory experiments and computer simulation are moving steadily in that direction.
Challenges abound, but no insurmountable barriers have materialized.
Foresight Institute is dedicated to improving the human condition by educating the public about the potential of nanotechnology to provide fundamental solutions for a wide range of human problems and challenges. The prize winner must design, construct and demonstrate the performance of a robotic arm or other positional device that initially fits into a cube no larger than 100 nanometers in any dimension. The intent of this robotic arm specification is a device demonstrating the controlled motions needed to manipulate and assemble individual atoms or molecules into larger structures, with atomic precision. The prize winner must also design, construct and demonstrate the performance of a digital computing device that fits into a cube no larger than 50 nanometers in any dimension. However, any mechanical driving mechanism used for input shall be limited to a single linkage that either slides or rotates on a single axis.