机械设计及其自动化毕业设计 外文翻译Microscopic Machines.docVIP

毕业设计（论文）外文资料翻译 学院： 机电工程学院 专业： 机械设计及其自动化 班级： 机械四班 姓名： 学号： Microscopic Machines 1 The surgeon picks up a syringe and approaches the man on the operating table. The patient’s coronary arteries are dangerously clogged with fatty deposits, which must be removed to prevent him from suffering a heart attack. The doctor injects a cloudy solution into the vein in the man’s arm. The solution contains thousands of microscopic “robot surgeons”, each equipped with a tiny motor to propel it through the bloodstream, chemical detectors for locating the life-threatening blockages, and miniature scalpels for cutting them away. Within half an hour, the swarms of tiny robots have navigated through the patient’s blood vessels to his heart, located the trouble spots, and sliced the lumpy, yellowish deposits off the artery walls. Normal blood flow has been restored. 2 for the time being, such medical scenarios will have to remain on the technological dream list and they may never become reality. No one has built anything remotely like these fictional micro robots. But scientists and engineers in the United States and elsewhere have already made a variety of gears, levers, rotors, and other mechanical parts the size of specks of dust. Such components made of the element silicon or of metals or other materials may someday be assembled into tiny robots and various other kinds of microscopic machines designed to perform specific functions. These micro machines would be so small that dozens could easily fit inside a sesame seed. 3 The recent advances in the miniaturization of machine parts represent the beginnings of a new branch of engineering, whose practitioners think small extremely small. Micro machine technology is still so new that it doesn’t yet have a widely accepted name. Some researchers call it micro engineering, while others refer to it as micro dynamics or micromechanics. Whatever they call their new discipline, these engineers work