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This Defense Intelligence Reference Document from the Defense Intelligence Agency, dated 10 December 2010, is one of a series of advanced technology reports produced in FY 2010 under the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications (AAWSA) Program. It reviews quantum computing technologies and DNA-based molecular computing for onboard supercomputing on future spacecraft. It forecasts ion-trap quantum computers within 10 years, simple DNA tile computing within 20 years, and self-repairing DNA computers on a 40-year horizon.
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UNCLASSIFIED/ /F8A 8FFI~IIP 1!55 011! X Figure 23. First Generation (MAYA I) DNA-based Logic Circuit that plays tic-tac-toe. Robotic Bases (The DNA Robot) Illustrated thus far are various structures that can be built by DNA-based approaches, and such components can be combined into even more complex systems at a nanoscale. As an example of the integration of different DNA components, we present here an approach that that will eventually lead to the design of DNA "robots." In order to make such robots, we must integrate three, up to now separate, molecular functions into either the molecule itself, or into the interactions between the molecule and the environment it traverses. These three functions are sensing, information processing, and movement. In principle, DNA provides us with all these functions, and we should be able to build functional units that could be justifiably called molecular robots solely out of nucleic acids. We hope that DNA robots will enable us to approach on a molecular scale, the important issues in the field of 'ordinary' robotics such as; evolution, learning, multi-robot interaction, self-replications, and self-repair. Sensing devices are necessary to extract information from the environment such as existence of a specific molecular species in the solution and shape and properties of the 40 UNCLASSIFIED/ /I OR 01 I ICIAE O.JC OHL I
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