Mavroidis C., Ferreira A. (eds.) Nanorobotics. Current Approaches and Techniques

Springer, New York, 2013. — 467 p.Nanorobotics is an emerging interdisciplinary technology area raising new scientific challenges and promising revolutionary advancements in applications such as medicine, biology, and industrial manufacturing. Nanorobots could be defined as intelligent systems with overall dimensions at or below the micrometer range that are made of assemblies of nanoscale components with individual dimensions ranging between 1 and 100nm. Nanorobots would be able to perform at least one of the following actions: actuation, sensing, signaling, information processing, intelligence, swarm behavior at the nanoscale. In an effort to disseminate the current advances in nanorobotics, and to stimulate a discussion on future research directions in this field, this book addresses the current state of the art and the growing interest of the robotics community. The editors believe that this book can invigorate new research interests in the development of nanorobotic systems and their use in different applications. The various chapters demonstrate that the area of nanorobotics can attract multidisciplinary teams of researchers, assembling skills and expertise from different disciplines, such as biology, robotics, engineering, medicine, nanotechnology, chemistry, and computer science.Nanorobotics: The Vision and Applications
Nanorobotics: Past, Present, and Future
Nanomechanical Cantilever-Based Manipulation for Sensing and Imaging
Swarms of Self-Organized Nanorobots
Reservoir Nanoagents for In-Situ Sensing and Intervention
Miniaturization and Micro/Nanotechnology in Space Robotics
Diamondoid Nanorobotics
Nano-Manipulation and Industrial Nanorobotics
Virtual Tooling for Nanoassembly and Nanomanipulations
Nanorobotic Mass Transport
Nanorobotic Manipulation of 1D Nanomaterials in Scanning Electron Microscopes
Nano-Manipulation in Biomedical Applications
Nanorobotic Manipulation and Sensing for Biomedical Applications
Nanohandling of Biomaterials
Apply Robot-Tweezers Manipulation to Cell Stretching for Biomechanical Characterization
Inside the Body Nanorobotic Applications
Propulsion and Navigation Control of MRI-Guided Drug Delivery Nanorobots
Generating Magnetic Fields for Controlling Nanorobots in Medical Applications
Techniques for MRI-Based Nanorobotics
Therapeutic Bacterial Nanorobots for Targeted Drug Delivery Deep Inside Tumors
Sensing Strategies for Early Diagnosis of Cancer by Swarm of Nanorobots: An Evidential Paradigm
Bio-Nano Actuators for Nanorobotics
DNA Nanorobotics
DNA for Self-Assembly
Local Environmental Control Technique for Bacterial Flagellar Motor
Protein-Based Nanoscale Actuation