"A new study reveals that microscopic worms, Caenorhabditis elegans, can use electric fields to “jump” onto electrically charged objects, such as bumblebees, essentially hitching a ride. This breakthrough discovery provides a link between their known behavior of attaching to insects for transportation and the previously unexplained method of how they can traverse such large distances relative to their size. (Artist’s concept.)" (ScitechDaily, WATCH: Worms Use Electricity To Jump)
Small worms called Caenorhabditis elegans or elegans worms, can jump in electric fields using electricity. This behavior makes it possible for those microscopic worms can hover in the electric field. That might not seem very impressive when we think that those worms are microscopic.
However, researchers can copy this ability to the microscopic machines.
The ability to jump in magnetic fields gives tiny, almost microscopic machines the ability to jump in 3D structures, and that is the great advance in miniature technology. Small robots with nanotechnical microchips can be the new tools for miniature technology. They can assemble miniature microprocessors.
The elegans worm is interesting because it's one of the tiniest and simplest multi-cell organisms. Those worms have a couple of nerve cells, and researchers are interested in those worm's ability to learn things. The elegance worm's nervous system can connected with microprocessors. That gives small, nano-size microprocessors the ability to operate more independently than without those cells. The nervous cells of the elegance worm can deliver electricity to those nano-and miniature machines.
"Known as non-locality, electrical stimuli passed between neighboring electrodes can also affect non-neighboring electrodes. Credit: Mario Rojas / UC San Diego" (ScitechDaily, Mimicking the Mind: Quantum Material Exhibits Brain-Like “Non-Local” Behavior)
The term non-local behavior means that things like thoughts have some effect on remote objects like fingers. In atomic structures and material science, non-local behavior means the action continues over so-called natural borders. The non-local behavior makes it possible for things like molecules can self-assemble themselves.
This is a key element in quantum materials. Quantum materials are things that can form new structures in nanomaterials. The quantum materials can act as independent entities. Or they can be part of the larger entireties. Quantum materials are interesting things. They can involve things like microprocessors.
That makes those new materials very effective. If we think of robots that are created using quantum materials, those robots can create channels through them if somebody shoots them or they face some kind of asteroid impact. Those intelligent materials can involve sensorial abilities that launch pre-programmed reactions. That allows them to react fast to incoming objects.
https://scitechdaily.com/mimicking-the-mind-quantum-material-exhibits-brain-like-non-local-behavior/
https://scitechdaily.com/watch-worms-use-electricity-to-jump/
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