CARBON NANOTUBES: Micro-robotic demonstrators developed

摘要

A European consortium, the NanoHand project, says it has built two micro-robotic demonstrators that can automatically pick up and install carbon nanotubes. The robots, about two cm in size, work inside a scanning electron microscope where their activities can be followed by an observer. Volkmar Eichhorn, of the university of Oldenburg, explains: "The whole set-up is integrated into the vacuum chamber of the microscope. There is a glass plate where these mobile microrobots can walk around."