Brad Nelson

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192

podcast

Micro and Nano Robotics, with Brad Nelson

Audrow Nash 02 Oct 2015

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...

Will nanotechnology soon allow you to ‘swallow the doctor’? | CNN

Hallie Siegel 05 Feb 2015

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...

Better micro-actuators to transport materials in liquids

Fabio Bergamin and ETH Zurich 18 Nov 2014

Researchers have developed improved forms of tiny magnetic actuators thanks to new materials and a microscopic 3D printing technology....

Video: Rise of the nanorobot, with Brad Nelson

ETH Zurich 07 Oct 2014

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...

Minimally-invasive eye surgery on the horizon as magnetically-guided microbots approach clinical trials

Simone Schürle 26 Jun 2013

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...