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That's not a nanoscale robot, is it? It's antimatter: it annihilates matter, because that's what physics says it does. You're walking around the problem I handed you and just solving the "destroy lots of stuff" problem. Yes, it's easy to destroy lots of stuff: we knew that already. And yet if I ask you to invent grey goo in specific, you don't seem able to come up with a feasible design.
How is it not a nanoscale robot? It is a nanoscale device that performs the assigned task. What does a robot have that the nanoscale anticarbon lump doesn't?
I admit that it's not the sort of thing one thinks of when one thinks of the word 'robot' (to be fair, though, what I think of when I think of the word 'robot' is not nanoscale either). But I have found that, often, a simple solution to a problem can be found by, as you put it, 'walking around' it to get to the desired outcome.