Even a quick glance at the modern world reveals a place where we coexist with an increasingly large number of machines and devices that assist us in most everyday tasks. The human body uses a large number of self-repairing and self-replicating machines driven by the ATP hydrolysis, currents of ions and small molecules, and cascades of protein interactions to generate motion, signaling, thought, and emotions. Remarkably, the technology that we have built around us is based on similar design principles yet uses a completely different materials platform, man-made structures use inorganic materials, electron currents, and electric fields, and power themselves with fossil fuels or stored electrical energy.

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