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Talking Robots - Brad Nelson
     


Brad Nelson
at the Robotics and Intelligent
Systems Institute at the ETH
Zürich is one of the world's leading researchers in a new field
he calls BioMicroRobotics. Think robots about the size of this dot ( . )
for applications such as retinal
surgery or highly targeted drug delivery. No matter what aspect of
such a robot you consider, sensors, movement, computation or energy all
present formidable engineering challenges in itself. Tackling all in
parallel, Nelson has built a robot just 0.3 millimeters long, winning
the first edition of the RoboCup
Nanogram Competition last year. For more information listen to the interview, have
a look at his
website and check out the video of the
robot kicking a 100um golden football.


   

http://robots.net/article/2482.html