Controlling tiny multi-scale robots for nerve repair

Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 3, Issue , 2005, Pages 1286-1291

  Hogg, Tad ^a   Sretavan, David W ^b  

^a HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MULTI-SCALE ROBOTS; NANOROBOTS; NERVE CELLS; NERVE REPAIR;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CELLS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOLOGY; NEUROLOGY;

ROBOTS;

EID: 29344466038     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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