This is true of everything from AI to a new technology making headlines, smart dust. Smart dust isn't a single technological leap, nor is it a single machine. Instead, smart dust consists of ...
Or envision programmable smart dust that triggers an alarm signal when invisible microcracks are detected in a turbine blade. Smart dust refers to wireless networks of sub-millimeter-scale autonomous ...
Tiny motes like this are sometimes referred to as “smart dust”, a term that saw some hype in the early 2000s but thankfully hasn’t yet lived up to some of the more apocalyptic visions.
Developed by Professor Kris Pister at the University of California at Berkeley and expected in the next decade, smart dust particles are planned to be no more than 1 cubic millimeter in size ...