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Robotics, Handling and Storage
News Release from: Alio Industries
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 30 January 2008
Small company works at the molecular
level
One nanotech application currently being developed is the storage of computer data on a three-dimensional hologram instead of a two-dimensional hard drive surface.
Alio Industries in Wheat Ridge, Jefferson County, USA employs fewer than 20 people, but its engineers have designed and are building some of the most finely-tuned robots in the world, the machines can manipulate materials on the molecular level Nanotechnology is the science of working with and building products on extremely small scales
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 21 May 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Alio Industries was founded in 2001 by Bill Hennessey.
He says the company is already selling millions of dollars worth of robots to industries each year.
Some of the end-use applications are military, but most are in the civilian sector.
Alio President Jeff Johnson said the company's robots have an infinite number of applications.
One currently being developed is the storage of computer data on a three-dimensional hologram instead of a two-dimensional hard drive surface.
Such a hologram would be able to store massive amounts of information.
Another Alio robot is being used by scientists in laser fusion experiments, which, if proved out, could someday make fossil fuels obsolete.
"We are building the most advanced and precise robotics-in-motion systems on the world market", said Johnson.
"These systems are built to move in nanometer increments.
That's about one ten-thousandth the thickness of a human hair.
"Being able to manipulate genetic material or biomaterial or other things at that small scale is going to open up a huge number of new inventions and technologies" according to Johnson.
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