Small-Scale Robotics. From Nano-to-Millimeter-Sized Robotic Systems and Applications First International Workshop at ICRA 2013, Karlsruhe, Germany, May 6, 2013, Revised and Extended Papers /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Paprotny, Igor (Editor), Bergbreiter, Sarah (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 8336
• Subjects: Computer science.; Health informatics.; Special purpose computers.; Artificial intelligence.; Nanoscale science.; Nanoscience.; Nanostructures.; Nanotechnology.; Computer Science.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems.; Health Informatics.; Nanotechnology and Microengineering.; Nanoscale Science and Technology.; Computer Science, general.

This book contains selected contributions from some of the most renowned researchers in the field of small-scale robotics, based in large part on invited presentations from the workshop “The Different Sizes of Small-Scale Robotics: from Nano-, to Millimeter-Sized Robotic Systems and Applications,” w...

Table of Contents:

• Small-Scale Robotics: An Introduction
• Tubular Micro-nano robots: Smart Design for Bio-related Applications
• Addressing of Micro-robot Teams and Non-contact Micro-manipulation
• Progress Toward Mobility in Micro fabricated Milli robots
• From Nano helices to Magnetically Actuated Micro drills: A Universal Platform for Some of the Smallest Untethered Micro robotic Systems for Low Reynolds Number and Biological Environments
• Micro Stress Bots: Species Differentiation in Surface Micro machined Micro robots
• Towards Functional Mobile Magnetic Micro robots.