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by MarkusQ 17 days ago
This seems to be the galena cat whisker stage of developing Drexler's "eutactic chemistry". It may be a parlor trick forever, or it might be the humble beginnings of mechanosynthesis, the first working tool-tips for a Drexler arm.

https://wiki.reprap.org/wiki/Drexler_Arm