Robots: Nanosystems

Posted 26 Jul 2010 at 16:48 UTC (updated 26 Jul 2010 at 16:48 UTC) by mwaibel

"There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom", as Richard Feynman famously pointed out during a talk in 1959. And a lot of progress has been made since: The latest episode of the Robots podcast takes a look at nanorobotics and the current state of the art concerning nano robot hardware and control. The first guest is Ari Requicha, who is the founder of the Laboratory for Molecular Robotics (LMR) at the University of Southern California and editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology. The second guest is Grégory Mermoud, who is currently finishing his PhD at the Distributed Intelligent Systems and Algorithms Lab at the EPFL. For more on the state of the art in nano robotics read on or tune in!