[Tyler]

Robots: Soft Machines
     


At the nanoscale, our intuitions for what makes a good engineering
solution and what not quickly break down - turns out everything is a lot
less rigid and a lot more sticky than you'd think. The latest episode of
the Robots podcast interviews
Richard Jones, Professor of Physics at the University of Sheffield in the UK. Jones specializes on
Soft Machines - think the Fantastic Voyage's
submarine cruising in your blood stream. For a fascinating insight into
a world which blurs the boundaries between biology and machines: Where
rigid body dynamics is replaced by constantly reforming and mutable
structures, where interactions are dominated by Brownian motion, and
where motors are built from DNA and logic gates from protein molecules,
tune
in!


   

http://robots.net/article/2881.html