Nanobots to the Rescue

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Before Reading

There is a robot that is smaller than a human hair!
Have you ever heard of nanobots?
Combining nano and robot, a nano meant a dwarf in ancient Greece.
These days a nanobot is a teeny tiny robot that we can’t see with our eyes. How small is it? Hold a piece of your hair between your fingers.
Now imagine cutting the width of the hair 100,000 times. It’s too small to see with the human eye. The size that we can see with our eyes is 0.1mm. Can you imagine how small a nanobot is? Since a nanobot is so small, people can neither feel nor smell it. It can only be observed with a special microscope called a scanning tunneling microscope.
In the future nanobots are expected to kill viruses and repair damaged cells by going into the human body and swimming in the blood. In fact, the scientists have already invented a medical nanobot that can be used to detect and treat cancer.
While reading this book, you’ll learn about other more advanced nanobots.

Summary

Jason along with his pet Duke was going to visit the nanorobotics laboratory that his father worked for on ‘Bring a Child to Work Day’. That morning when Jason went to the laboratory, his father, Mr. Franklin gave him a pair of socks and Duke a red dog collar. Surprisingly, these ordinary looking gifts contained nanobots. When Jason wore the socks and Duke wore the dog collar, their locations could be traced using a computer.
When Jason arrived at the laboratory and was engrossed in looking at nanobots. Duke tried to steal a cookie on a table, knocking onto the floor a glass bottle with nanobots in it. Scared, Duke ran out of the laboratory! Jason and his father traced Duke’s dog collar using a tablet computer. Can Jason and Mr. Franklin find Duke’s location using the nanobots in the dog collar and bring him back?