Contact CoChairs to Join see TC website http:rastcmnra'in2p3'fr

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Micro / Nano Robotics and Automation TC- Recent
advances -
Artificial Bacterial Flagella (ABF) have
comparable geometries and dimensions to their
organic counterparts and can swim in controllable
fashion using weak applied magnetic field.
Reference L. Zhang, J. J. Abbott, L. X. Dong,
B. E. Kratochvil, D. J. Bell, B. J. Nelson,
"Artificial Bacterial Flagella Fabrication and
Magnetic Control", Applied Physics Letters, Vol.
94, No. 6, February 2009.
Manipulation of salmon testes DNA, cut in an
automated way (green arrows) using the AFM. In
order to present an alternative to the currently
used self assembling technologies, a nanorobotic
system for the direct and automated manipulation
of DNA was implemented. Reference M.
Weigel-Jech, S. Fatikow, "Development of a novel
nanorobotic system for the characterization and
manipulation of biomaterials", The Fifth
International Conference on Microtechnologies in
Medicine and Biology. Québec City, Canada. April
1-3, 2009.
In order to achieve high-efficiency
nanomanipulation, a parallel imaging/manipulation
microscope, which consists of two individually
actuated microcantilevers that can fulfill image
scan and manipulation in parallel, was
presented. Reference H. Xie, S. Haliyo, S.
Régnier, Parallel imaging/manipulation force
microscopy, Applied Physics Letters, 94,
153106, 2009.
Wireless resonant magnetic microactuator for
untethered mobile microrobots. Reference K.
Vollmers, D. R. Frutiger, B. E. Kratochvil, B. J.
Nelson, "Wireless resonant magnetic microactuator
for untethered mobile microrobots", Applied
Physics Letters, Vol. 92, No. 14, 2008.
Scale-appropriate locomotion models for
millimeter-scale mobile robots. Reference S.
Bergbreiter, "Effective and Efficient Locomotion
for Millimeter-Sized Microrobots, IROS 2008,
Nice, France, 2008.
Contact Co-Chairs to Join (see TC website
http//rastc-mnra.in2p3.fr ) Fumihito Arai
arai_at_imech.mech.tohoku.ac.jp Nicolas
Chaillet nicolas.chaillet_at_femto-st.fr Ari
Requicha requicha_at_usc.edu