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The somewhat speculative claims about the possibility of using nanorobots in medicine, advocates say, would totally change the world of medicine once it is realized.

Nanomedicine would make use of these nanorobots ( e. g., Computational Genes ), introduced into the body, to repair or detect damages and infections.

According to Robert Freitas of the Institute for Molecular Manufacturing, a typical blood borne medical nanorobot would be between 0. 5-3 micrometres in size, because that is the maximum size possible due to capillary passage requirement.

Carbon could be the primary element used to build these nanorobots due to the inherent strength and other characteristics of some forms of carbon ( diamond / fullerene composites ), and nanorobots would be fabricated in desktop nanofactories specialized for this purpose.