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Cooperative cargo transportation by a swarm of molecular machines
Researchers showed it is possible to collectively transport molecular cargo by a swarm of artificial molecular robots responding to light.
23 July 2022, by
Daniel Carrillo-Zapata
Foldable, organic and easily broken down: Why DNA is the material of choice for nanorobots
By Anthony King
Doctors know that we need smarter medicines to target the bad guys only. One hope is that tiny robots on the scale of a billionth of a metre can come to the rescue, delivering drugs...
11 May 2021, by
Horizon Magazine
IEEE RAS Soft Robotics Podcast with Ali Khademhosseini: Biomaterials, soft robotics and the Terasaki Institute
Interesting discussion with Prof. Ali Khademhosseini, CEO of the Terasaki Institute, and one of the pioneers of the Bioengineering field. Prof. Ali’s journey from Harvard and UCLA to the Terasaki In...
26 January 2021, by
Marwa ElDiwiny
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266
podcast
Towards using Micro and Nano Robots in the Human Body, with Peer Fischer
In this episode, Marwa ElDiwiny interview Peer Fisher, a Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Stuttgart and the Director of the Micro Nano and Molecular Systems Lab at the Max Planck I...
06 August 2018, by
Marwa ElDiwiny
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192
podcast
Micro and Nano Robotics, with Brad Nelson
Transcript below.
In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks with Brad Nelson, Professor at ETH Zurich, about his research regarding micro and nano robotics. They discuss many of Nelson’s projects: ret...
02 October 2015, by
Audrow Nash
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188
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Mobile Microrobotics Challenge, with Leanne King and Ioan Alexandru
Transcript below.
In this interview, Audrow Nash talks to two teams from Mobile Microrobotics Challenge at the 2015 International Conference for Robotics and Automation (ICRA)....
07 August 2015, by
Audrow Nash
Surgical micro-robot swarms: Science fiction, or realistic prospect?
Imagine a swarm of microscopic robots that we inject into the vascular system: the swarm swims to the source of the problem, then either delivers therapeutics or undertakes microsurgery directly.
T...
09 March 2015, by
Alan Winfield
Will nanotechnology soon allow you to ‘swallow the doctor’? | CNN
At ETH Zurich, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, mechanical engineer Brad Nelson and his team have worked on nanobots for a decade, and are now ready to think big: "We're making microscopic r...
05 February 2015, by
Hallie Siegel
Video: Rise of the nanorobot, with Brad Nelson
The future is in the hands of tiny robots, really tiny robots — and the expectation is that they will perform miraculous tasks, such as eye surgery and environmental cleanup.
Brad Nelson heads th...
07 October 2014, by
ETH Zurich
Robots, soldiers and cyborgs: The future of warfare
Boston Dynamics' BigDog.
When we imagine the future of warfare, we often envision a battlefield where humanoid robots and other machines fight alongside or in the place of human soldiers. From the dr...
05 February 2014, by
Armin Krishnan and Footnote
Minimally-invasive eye surgery on the horizon as magnetically-guided microbots approach clinical trials
Unlike larger robots, microrobots for applications in the body are too small to carry batteries and motors. To address this challenge, we power and control robots made of magnetic materials using exte...
26 June 2013, by
Simone Schürle
Science without borders: Becoming cross-disciplinary
Those who move away from home, for long enough, know that you end up not belonging anywhere. The more you move the easier it becomes. Looking back, you realize that you've learned new languages and cu...
14 June 2013, by
Sabine Hauert
