Robotic

30- A nanorobot capable of operating and detailed sensing within a scanning electron microscope, capable of teleoperation with haptic feedback and nanoscale manipulation.

http://europa.eu.int/comm/research/industrial_technologies/13-10-03_pro-robosem_en.html

31- Nanorobots, NEMS, and Nanoassembly

http://ilab.usc.edu/classes/2002cs597f/RequichaProc9-5.pdf

32- Creating structured robotics community

http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/ants/

33-Protein Based Nano-Machines for Space Applications

http://bionano.rutgers.edu/Mavroidis_Final_Report.pdf

34-Micro Flying Robot

http://www.mobilemag.com/content/100/102/C2267/

35-Centre for Micro and Nano Systems [Hong Kong]

http://www2.acae.cuhk.edu.hk/~cmns/project.html

36-Nanorobotic Manipulations of Carbon Nanotubes

http://www.mein.nagoya-u.ac.jp/activity/2001_e/resact2001_25.html

37-Wall climbing Microrobots

http://www.egr.msu.edu/microrobot/

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/03/000303080559.htm

38-Multimode (flying/crawling) Insect

http://avdil.gtri.gatech.edu/RCM/RCM/Entomopter/EntomopterProject.html

39-Flexible micro-robot for the investigation of pipes

http://hp.agip.sciences.univ-metz.fr/~mihalach/Copernicus_projet_engl.html

40-World’s smallest flying microrobot

http://www.epson.co.jp/e/newsroom/news_2003_11_18_2.htm

41-Ant size robot

http://www.cnn.com/TECH/ptech/9907/13/japan.microrobot/

http://www.salon.com/tech/log/1999/06/21/robot/index.html

42- Ugo
http://users.libero.it/riccardo.rocca/ugo1

http://users.libero.it/riccardo.rocca/ugo2

43-LAMI-EPFL, Switzerland

www.epfl.ch/lami/mirobots/1cubes.html

44-MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/ants/

45- Seiko Epson Corp

http://www.mobilemag.com/content/100/102/C1547/

http://www.eetimes.com/sys/news/OEG20031121S0053

46-Sandia National Laboratories, locating and disabling land mines or detecting chemical and biological weapons

http://www.sandia.gov/media/NewsRel/NR2001/minirobot.htm

47- University of Minnesota, Center for Distributed Robotics

http://distrob.cs.umn.edu/scout.php

48- Microrobot North America

http://www.microrobotna.com/airat2.htm

49-: Biologically Inspired Robotics Lab, Case Western Reserve University

http://biorobots.cwru.edu/projects/c_mrobot/c_mrobot.htm

50-Black Widow

http://www.aerovironment.com/area-aircraft/prod-serv/bwidpap.pdf

51-Autonomous Mobile Microrobot

http://akseli.tekes.fi/Resource.phx/tivi/presto/tapahtunutta.htx.Doc.doc.3.pdf

52-Micro-Motion Systems

http://www.s3.kth.se/mst/research/projects/micromotion/index.shtml

53. Proxy Flyer (6.9gm Micro-helicopter, Brussels, Belgium)

http://www.proxflyer.com/

http://www.linuxelectrons.com/article.php?story=20031218091553615

54. Desktop Rapid Prototyping Millirobots (Berkeley, US)

http://robotics.eecs.berkeley.edu/~ronf/desktop.html

55. Endoscopic micro-capsule (RFSystems Lab, Japan)

http://rfnorika.com/e_system/e_system_001.html

56. Sprawl Robots (Biomimetics Lab, Stanford, US)

http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/biomimetics/

57. Nanorover Technology (JPL & NASA, US)

http://robotics.jpl.nasa.gov/tasks/nrover/nrt_main.html

58.Building the nanofuture: factory in a microscope (Nanotechnology, Europe)

http://europa.eu.int/comm/research/industrial_technologies/13-10-03_pro-robosem_en.html

59. Nasatech (Nanomanipulation products in market, Germany)

http://www.nascatec.de/english/index1eng.htm

60.Laboratory for Molecular Robotics at USC

URL Link Address: http://www-lmr.usc.edu/~lmr/

61. MINI-ROBOT RESEARCH

http://www.sandia.gov/media/NewsRel/NR2001/minirobot.htm

62. Control of a Micro-Organism as a Prototype Micro-Robot

http://robotics.eecs.berkeley.edu/~ronf/UCYBORG/index.html

63. Micro & Nano Robotics

http://www.cat.rpi.edu/robotics.htm

64. Center for Robotics and Mechatronics, Micro-Robot Soccer

http://www.iitk.ac.in/robotics/project_lists/soccer/microrobot/

65. Micro Walking Robots

http://www.s3.kth.se/mst/research/projects/micromotion/index.shtml

66. Snake-like Flexible Micro-robot PROJET COPERNICUS

http://www.agip.sciences.univ-metz.fr/~mihalach/Copernicus_projet_engl.html

67.Nanorobot

http://www.ifm.ethz.ch/research/nano-2.html

68.ROBOSEM:

http://www.robosem.org/About/about.html

69.A Ciliary Motion Based 8-legged Walking Micro Robot Using Cast IPMC Actuators

http://robot.kist.re.kr/research_new_frameset.htm

70.Tele-Nano Robotics

http://dfs.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~shintani/Nano/research.html

71.Aerospcae Robotics Lab

http://arl.stanford.edu/

72.The Crystalline Atomic Unit Modular Self-reconfigurable Robot

http://www.mit.edu/~vona/xtal/xtal.html

73.Haptic interface

http://www.3rdtech.com/NanoManipulator.htm

74.Tapping Micropositioning Cell

http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~whuang/arl/research/micropositioning.htm

75.Advanced Handling, Assembly and Testing Technologies for Mini/Micro System

http://www.control.hut.fi/Research/ahaa/

76. Molecular manipulation

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~ppzstm/

77.Credit Card Robot System

http://robotics.eecs.berkeley.edu/~ronf/MICROBOT/credit-card.html

78. ETHZ Institute of Robotics

http://www.ifr.mavt.ethz.ch/photo/nanorobotics/

79. Assembly automation with evolutionary nanorobots and sensor-based control applied to nanomedicine

http://www.dca.fee.unicamp.br/~adricant/papers/nanorobotics/nanoroboticsTrans.pdf

80.Microrobotic Actuation Mechanisms

http://216.239.51.104/search?q=cache:vQzAFB46huMJ:www.cs.jhu.edu/~cis/cista/446_2002/class/srini/paper.ppt+nanorobot+sensor+actuator+research&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

81.NanoWizard ™ AFM Atomic Force Microscope

http://www.jpk.com/index2.htm

82.Micromechatronics and Microrobotics Group of the Institute for Process Control and Robotics (IPR)

http://wwwipr.ira.uka.de/~microbot/miniman/overview.htm

83. Swarm-bots
http://www.swarm-bots.org/index.php?main=3

84. Center of Research In Microengineering

http://www-crim.sssup.it/research/projects/pollicino/default.htm

85.Mecho Gecko

http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2002/09/rfull/robots.html

86.MIPS Micro-Robot for Endoscopy Applications

http://www-sop.inria.fr/saga/saga.html

87.A Microgripper Using Smart Piezoelectric Actuators

http://www.lab.cnrs.fr

http://www.lab.cnrs.fr/micro

88. A Micro Robot System for Colonoscopy

http://www-crim.sssup.it

B. Micro/Nano-Actuators

1-Micro-Fabricated ICPF Actuators for Aqueous Micromanipulation

http://www2.acae.cuhk.edu.hk/~cmns/

2-Ajou University Micro Systems Lab-Electrostatic Actuators

http://www.ajou.ac.kr/~mems/proj-EA.htm

3- Nanotechnology in Energy Application

http://www.itri.org.tw/eng/research/nano/re-naro-fn06.jsp?tree_idx=0500

4-Gear Systems: Micro-scale planetary gear systems

http://www.imm-mainz.de/

5-Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center [UC Berkeley]- Smart Dust

http://www-bsac.eecs.berkeley.edu/~warneke/SmartDust/index.html

http://www-bsac.eecs.berkeley.edu/~shollar/hollar_MEMS03_paper.pdf

6-Piezoelectric Motors for Nanoengineering and Metrology

http://www.cranfield.ac.uk/sims/materials/nanotech/piezomotorsummary.html

7-Micro sensor and actuator lab

http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/leglab/robots/robots.html

8-FLEXTENSIONAL ULTRASONIC PIEZOELECTRIC MICROMOTOR

URL Link Address: http://www.cranfield.ac.uk/sims/materials/nanotech/

9-Molecular Motors, ATP synthase.

http://photoscience.la.asu.edu/bionano/research4.htm

C. Micro/Nano-Materials

1-Center of Excellence for Advanced Materials
http://www-ceam.ucsd.edu/index.shtml

2-Kagoshima University--Stimuli-Responsive Materials

http://www-nano.eng.kagoshima-u.ac.jp/~aoyagi-lab/newpage(English).htm

http://www.jst.go.jp/kisoken/nano/ushiodae.html

3-Institute for Molecular Science, Okazaki National Research Institute-Nanomaterials for Environmental Conservation

http://www.jst.go.jp/kisoken/nano/misonoue.html

http://www.ims.ac.jp/as/uozumi.html (Japanese only)

4-Center for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology [Lehigh University]

http://www.lehigh.edu/nano/mechanical_nano.html

5-Nano-EELS Characterization of Multi-Element Nanotubes

http://nlpgw.jst.go.jp/

6-Self-assembled Nanostructures

http://www.wsi.tumuenchen.de/E24/research/nanostructures/selfassembled_nanostructures.htm

D. Micro/Nano-Sensors

1-Soft Lithography for Non-planar Surface Application

http://www.mech.nwu.edu/labs/micronano/research_soft_litho.html

2-Fabrication of Carbon Nanotube-Based Sensor

http://www.mech.nwu.edu/labs/micronano/research_carbon_sensor.html

3- Center for Transportation Nanotechnology [Northwestern University]

http://www.ctn.northwestern.edu/CTN.PDF

4-NanoStructures Laboratory [Princeton University]

http://www.ee.princeton.edu/~chouweb/newproject/page18.html

5-BERKELEY SENSOR & ACTUATOR CENTER

http://www.bsac.eecs.berkeley.edu/project/zoom.php?urlmyprojectID=KSJP4&URLnode=8

6-Carbon nanotube-based sensor

http://www.mech.nwu.edu/labs/micronano/research_carbon_sensor.html

E. Microscopy

1-Thermal Microscopy

http://www.nano.me.berkeley.edu/

2-Programming a Scanning Probe Microscope (SPM) as a Sensory Robot

http://www-lmr.usc.edu/~lmr/html/research.html

3-Self-assembled Nanostructures

http://www.wsi.tu-muenchen.de/E24/research/nanostructures/selfassembled_nanostructures.htm

4-Handling and assembly of micromechanical parts under a light microscope.

http://robotics.eecs.berkeley.edu/~ronf/mfi.html

5. Data storage mechanism using nanomanipulation (lithography) (USC, US)

http://www-lmr.usc.edu/%7Elmr/publications/ijrr98/

6- Abalone: Precision in handling micro-particles

http://www.ifr.mavt.ethz.ch/photo/nanorobotics/

7-Scanning probe arrays

http://www.stanford.edu/group/quate_group/ImageFrame.html

8-Computer Integrated Systems for Microscopy and Manipulation (CISMM) at UNC Chapel Hill

http://www.cs.unc.edu/Research/nano/cismm/3d/index.html

9-Center for Computer Integrated Systems for Microscopy and Manipulation (CISMM) at University of North Carolina at Chapel-Hill, USA

http://www.cs.unc.edu/Research/nano/cismm/tools.html

F. Micro/Nano-Biotechnology

1-Micro-fluidic BioChips for Detection of Bio-Species

http://www.nanodevices.ecn.purdue.edu/biomems.html

2-Nanobiotechnology Center, Cornell University

http://www.nbtc.cornell.edu/research/biomoldyn.php

http://www.nbtc.cornell.edu/research/project_summaries/nanomat/nm4.htm

3-Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology [Singapore]

http://www.ibn.a-star.edu.sg/research_projects.php

4-Microbionic and peristaltic robots in a pipe

http://www.scienceinchina.com/ky/0011/ky0985.pdf

5. Biologically powered nano-devices (Cornell, US)

http://www.foresight.org/Conferences/MNT6/Papers/Montemagno/index.html

6-Bio-MEMs

http://www.biomems.uc.edu/links/academic.html

7-Bio-Instrumentation Lab, MIT

http://bioinstrumentation.mit.edu/Projects/fpga/Home.htm

8-Development of protein-based nano-motors and nano-robots

http://bionano.rutgers.edu/mru.html

9-Microrobotics for Molecular Biology

http://www.iris.mavt.ethz.ch/research/molecular.html

F. NEMS/MEMS

1-Nano guitar

http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/physics_astronomy/report-23492.html

2-Various Projects being worked on here in MEMs field

http://mechatro.snu.ac.kr/

3-Self assembly of mesoscopic objects

http://www.ciam.unibo.it/sitcon/

4-Artificial Muscle – Hear Wrap

http://www.persona.leeds.ac.uk/%7Emenrr/cardio/index.html

5-Wafer Level Microassembly of Hybrid MEMS

http://www.iris.mavt.ethz.ch/research/microassembly.html

6-Fabrication, Test and Simulation of a Parylene Diaphragm

http://microbot.kist.re.kr/publication/4B1.08P.pdf

7-The Micro Actuators, Sensors, and Systems Group, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

http://mass.micro.uiuc.edu

8-Rotational Nanoactuator/Nanometer

http://www.physics.berkeley.edu/research/zettl

9-Molecular and Electronic Nanostructures

http://www.beckman.uiuc.edu/research/menhome.html