Tutorial - Robotics in the small Part II: Nanorobotics

IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 111-121

  Dong, Lixin ^a   Nelson, Bradley J ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Nanofabrication; Nanorobotic assembly; Nanorobotic manipulation; Nanorobotics; NEMS; Scaling

Indexed keywords

END EFFECTORS; MANIPULATORS; NANOBIOTECHNOLOGY; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NEMS; ROBOTIC ASSEMBLY;

NANOASSEMBLY; NANOMETER SCALE; ROBOTIC MANIPULATION;

NANOROBOTICS;

EID: 35348855006     PISSN: 10709932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MRA.2007.905335     Document Type: Article

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