Micro / Nano Robotics and Automation TC

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Micro / Nano Robotics and Automation TC
Recent Advances
Electron micrograph of a MEMS microrobot that can
be controlled electrostatically in the plane.
Reference B. Donald, C. Levey, C. McGray, I.
Paprotny and D. Rus, An untethered,
electrostatic, globally controllable MEMS
micro-robot, J. Microelectromechanical Systems,
Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 1-15, February 2006.
A self-assembly technique for building arbitrary
shapes at the nanoscale by folding long,
single-stranded DNA. Reference P. W. K.
Rothemund, Folding DNA to create nanoscale
shapes and patterns, Nature, Vol. 440, pp.
297-302, 16 March 2006.
Contact Co-Chairs to Join Fumihito Arai
arai_at_imech.mech.tohoku.ac.jp Ari Requicha
requicha_at_usc.edu