Towards fully autonomous bacterial microrobots

Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics

Volumn 79, Issue , 2014, Pages 775-784

  Martel, Sylvain ^a  

^a ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; DATA COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; MICROMACHINING; ROBOTICS;

BIOLOGICAL ENTITIES; EXTERNAL SOURCES; FLAGELLATED BACTERIA; HUMAN INTERFACE; NATURAL APPROACHES; PROPULSION SYSTEM; TECHNOLOGICAL BARRIERS; TECHNOLOGICAL CONSTRAINTS;

PROPULSION;

EID: 84925497483     PISSN: 16107438     EISSN: 1610742X     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-28572-1_53     Document Type: Conference Paper

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