Voyage of the microrobots

Metin Sitti
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Metin Sitti: Carnegie Mellon University, 320 Scaife Hall, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213-3890, USA. sitti@cmu.edu

Nature, 2009, vol. 458, issue 7242, 1121-1122

Abstract: Nanobots — tiny robots that can be injected into the body to perform medical procedures — are the stuff of science fiction. Swimming microrobots propelled by artificial flagella bring that fantasy closer to reality.

Date: 2009
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