Robots have to store lots of information in order to coordinate their actions, but how can this be done for nanometre-scale robots? One answer is to program data into the robots' environment instead.
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Smith, L. Molecular robots on the move. Nature 465, 167–168 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/465167a
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