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Robert Freitas

Senior Research Fellow at Institute for Molecular Manufacturing

Robert A. Freitas Jr. holds a 1974 Bachelor’s degree majoring in both physics and psychology from Harvey Mudd College, and a 1978 Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from Santa Clara University. He has written more than 150 technical papers, book chapters, or popular articles on a diverse set of scientific, engineering, and legal topics. He co-edited the 1980 NASA feasibility analysis of self-replicating space factories and later authored the first detailed technical design study of a hypothetical medical nanorobot, the respirocyte, ever published in a refereed medical journal.

In 1977-78 Robert Freitas created the concept sentience quotient (SQ) as a way to describe the information processing rate in living organisms or computers. Freitas is authoring the multi-volume text Nanomedicine, the first book-length technical discussion of the potential medical applications of hypothetical molecular nanotechnology and medical nanorobotics. Volume I was published in October 1999 by Landes Bioscience while Freitas was a Research Fellow at the Institute for Molecular Manufacturing .

Also in 2004, Robert Freitas and Ralph Merkle coauthored and published Kinematic Self-Replicating Machines, the first complete survey of the field of physical and hypothetical self-replicating machines. In 2006, Freitas and Merkle co-founded the Nanofactory Collaboration, a research program to develop the first working diamondoid nanofactory.

Visit website: http://www.rfreitas.com/

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See also

Institute for Molecular Manufacturing (IMM)

Institute for nanotechnology research.

Details last updated 07-Sep-2019

Robert Freitas News

How much is too much? Exploring safe bloodstream levels for microscale nanorobots

How much is too much? Exploring safe bloodstream levels for microscale nanorobots

Live Forever Club - 21-Mar-2025

Future nanorobots should stay below 0.001% blood volume