Microscopic dynamics of cytobots

Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering

Volumn 3, Issue , 2004, Pages 1527-1532

  Podaima, Blake W ^a,b   Vaseeharan, Thuraiappah ^a,b   Gordon, Richard ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b TRLABS   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cytobots; Intracellular robotic micromanipulators; Nanobiology; Nanorobotics; Three dimensional magneto optical force microscopy

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; MAGNETOOPTICAL DEVICES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROMANIPULATORS; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

CYTOBOTS; INTRACELLULAR ROBOTIC MICROMANIPULATORS; NANOBIOLOGY; NANOROBOTICS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 6944243092     PISSN: 08407789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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