Initial uses of nanorobots to health care are likely to emerge within the next ten years with potentially broad biomedical applications. The ongoing developments of molecular-scale electronics, sensors and motors are expected to enable microscopic robots with dimensions comparable to bacteria. Recent developments on the field of biomolecular computing has demonstrated positively the feasibility of processing logic tasks by bio-computers, which is a promising first step to enable future nanoprocessors with increasingly complexity. Studies in the sense of building biosensors and nano-kinetic devices, which is required to enable nanorobots operation and locomotion, has been advanced recently too. Moreover, classical objections related to the real feasibility of nanotechnology, such as quantum mechanics, thermal motions and friction, has been considered and resolved and discussions about the manufacturing of nanodevises is growing up. Developing nanoscale robots presents difficult fabrication and control challenges. The control design and the development of complex integrated nanosystems with high performance can be well analysed and addressed via simulation to help pave the way for future use of nanorobots in biomedical engineering problems.

Nanorobotics Papers

Adriano Cavalcanti, Bijan Shirinzadeh, Robert A. Freitas Jr., Tad Hogg, “Nanorobot Architecture for Medical Target Identification”, Nanotechnology, IOP, Vol. 19, no. 1, 015103 (15pp), January 2008.

Adriano Cavalcanti, Bijan Shirinzadeh, Toshio Fukuda, Seiichi Ikeda, “Hardware Architecture for Nanorobot Application in Cerebral Aneurysm”, IEEE - Nano 2007 Int’l Conf. on Nanotechnology (4MB ppt - presentation), Hong Kong, China, pp. 237-242, August 2007.

Adriano Cavalcanti, Bijan Shirinzadeh, Declan Murphy, Julian A. Smith, “Nanorobots for Laparoscopic Cancer Surgery”, IEEE ICIS Int’l Conf. on Computer and Information Science, IEEE Computer Society, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 738-743, July 2007.

Adriano Cavalcanti, Bijan Shirinzadeh, Robert A. Freitas Jr., Luiz C. Kretly, “Medical Nanorobot Architecture Based on Nanobioelectronics”, Recent Patents on Nanotechnology, Bentham Science, Vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 1-10, February 2007.

Adriano Cavalcanti, Bijan Shirinzadeh, Tad Hogg, Luiz C. Kretly, “CMOS-based Nanorobot to Combat Cancer”, Australian Workshop on Fluid Mechanics, A Complex Dynamical System, Melbourne, Australia, December 2006. (invited talk)

Adriano Cavalcanti, Lior Rosen, Bijan Shirinzadeh, Moshe Rosenfeld, “Nanorobot for Treatment of Patients with Artery Occlusion”, Springer Proceedings of Virtual Concept, Cancun, Mexico, November 2006.

Adriano Cavalcanti, Warren W. Wood, Luiz C. Kretly, Bijan Shirinzadeh, “Computational Nanomechatronics: A Pathway for Control and Manufacturing Nanorobots”, IEEE CIMCA Int’l Conf. on Computational Intelligence for Modelling, Control and Automation, IEEE Computer Society, Sydney, Australia, pp. 185-190, November 2006.

Adriano Cavalcanti, Robert A. Freitas Jr., Luiz C. Kretly, “Nanorobotics Control Design: A Practical Approach Tutorial”, Robotics Today, SME, Vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 1-22, October 2005. (invited paper)

Adriano Cavalcanti, Robert A. Freitas Jr., “Nanorobotics Control Design: A Collective Behavior Approach for Medicine”, IEEE Transactions on Nanobioscience, Vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 133-140, June 2005.

Adriano Cavalcanti, “Nanorobotics”, In 3-D Simulations, Topic In Depth, NSF - The NSDL Scout Report for Math, Engineering and Technology, Vol. 4, no. 8, Computer Sciences Department, The University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison WI, USA, April 2005.

Adriano Cavalcanti, Lior Rosen, Luiz C. Kretly, Moshe Rosenfeld, Shmuel Einav, “Nanorobotic Challenges in Biomedical Applications, Design and Control”, IEEE ICECS Int’l Conf. on Electronics, Circuits and Systems, Tel-Aviv, Israel, pp. 447-450, December 2004.

Lior Rosen, Adriano Cavalcanti, Moshe Rosenfeld, Shmuel Einav, “Pro-Inflammatory Cytokines and Soluble Adhesion Molecules as Activating Triggers for Nanorobots”, BMES Conference on Biomedical Engineering: New Challenges for the Future (1MB ppt), Philadelphia PA, USA, October 2004.

Arancha Casal, Tad Hogg, Adriano Cavalcanti, “Nanorobots as Cellular Assistants in Inflammatory Responses”, Nanorobotics: Nanotechnology, Chemistry Biology, Info Center ETHZ, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland, September 2004.

Arancha Casal, Tad Hogg, Adriano Cavalcanti, “Nanorobots as Cellular Assistants in Inflammatory Responses”, IEEE BCATS Biomedical Computation at Stanford 2003 Symposium, IEEE Computer Society, Stanford CA, USA, October 2003.

Adriano Cavalcanti, “Assembly Automation with Evolutionary Nanorobots and Sensor-Based Control applied to Nanomedicine”, IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, Vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 82-87, June 2003.

Adriano Cavalcanti, Robert A. Freitas Jr., “Nanosystem Design with Dynamic Collision Detection for Autonomous Nanorobot Motion Control using Neural Networks”, Computer Graphics and Geometry, MEPhI, Vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 50-74, May 2003.

Adriano Cavalcanti, Robert A. Freitas Jr., “Autonomous Multi-Robot Sensor-Based Cooperation for Nanomedicine”, International Journal of Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation, Freund Publishing, Vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 743-746, August 2002.

Further Nanorobotics Papers…

Nanorobotics Articles

Software Provides Peek into the Body – and the Future, Special Feature: Emerging Technologies, Medical Product Manufacturing News, Canon Communications LLC, Vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 22-23, March 2008.

Nanorobot Manufacturing for Medicine, Advanced Manufacturing Technology, Technical Insights, Frost & Sullivan, January 2008.

Researchers Eye Software for Nanorobots, Featured Articles, NanoScienceWorks.Org, Taylor & Francis Group, January 2008.

Nanorobots for drug delivery?, Emerging Technology Trends, Roland Piquepaille, Where Technology Means Business, ZDNet, December 2007.

Virtual 3D nanorobots could lead to real cancer-fighting technology, Science Physics Tech Nano News, PhysOrg, December 2007.

Nanorobot for drug delivery and diagnosis, Lab Talk, Science Applications Industry, Nanotechweb, IOP, December 2007.

Medical Nanorobotics for Diabetes, Nanotechnology Interviews, The International Nanotechnology Business Directory, NanoVIP, January 2007.

Manufacturing Technology for Medical Nanorobots, News Journal, APNF Asia Pacific Nanotechnology Forum, Vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 8-13, January 2007.

Nanorobots for Cardiology, NanoScience Today, November 2006.

Developments on Nanorobots with System on Chip May Advance Cancer Diagnosis, Cancer Treatment, Health Care News Articles, eMaxHealth, October 2006.

Medical Nanorobotics Feasibility, Interviews, Your Gateway to Everything Nanotech, Nanotechnology Now, November 2005.

Nanorobot pioneer reveals status of simulator, stem cell work, Views on Nanotechnology, NanoDelta, February 2005.

New Nanorobotic Ideas, Big Things Happen in Small Places, Nanotechnology News Network, October 2004.

Nanorobot pioneer reveals status of simulator, stem cell work, The Global Nanobiotechnology Intelligence Source, NanoBiotech News, NHI Publications, Vol. 2, no. 36, pp. 4-5, September 2004.

Nanorobotics, NanoScience Today, September 2004.

Nanorobots Inside our Bodies?, Roland Piquepaille’s Technology Trends, August 2004.

Robots in the Body, Genome News Network, August 2004.

Nanorobotics Control, Infosatellite News, July 2004.

Nanorobotics Book

Adriano Cavalcanti, “Nanorobot Computational Mechatronics”. In preparation.

Nanorobot Design - News Network

Nanorobotics, Top Computers Robotics Research Papers, Sites4u, May 2008.

CAN Center for Automation in Nanobiotech, Science Technology Nanotechnology, Pro-Researcher, April 2008.

Hardware architecture for nanorobot application in cerebral aneurysm, Hardware Architecture, Wokdok, March 2008.

Nanorobotics control design: a collective behavior approach for medicine, in Neurosurgery in The Realm of 10^-9, Part 2: Applications of Nanotechnology to Neurosurgery-Present and Future, Neurosurgery, February 2008.

Nanorobot architecture for medical target identification, The Smithsonian/NASA Astrophysics Data System, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, January 2008.

Nanorobotics control design: a collective behaviour approach for medicine, in Neuroprotection at the Nanolevel - Part I Introduction to Nanoneurosurgery, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, December 2007.

Nanorobotics control design: A collective behavior approach for medicine, in Designs for Ultra-Tiny, Special-Purpose Nanoelectronic Circuits, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I, November 2007.

Assembly automation with evolutionary nanorobots and sensor-based control applied to nanomedicine, in Minimizing the photobleaching of self-assembled multilayers for sensor applications, Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, September 2007.

Medical Nanorobot Architecture Based on Nanobioelectronics, in Nanotechnology: Huge Future for Small Innovation, Cover Story, Medical Design Technology, July 2007.

Assembly Automation with Evolutionary Nanorobots and Sensor-Based Control applied to Nanomedicine, in Coordinating Microscopic Robots in Viscous Fluids, Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Springer, June 2007.

Medical Nanorobot Architecture Based on Nanobioelectronics, in Equipment and Technology in Robotics, Urology Robotic Surgery, Arch. Esp. Urol., May 2007.

Assembly automation with evolutionary nanorobots and sensor-based control applied to nanomedicine, in Molecular Computation and Evolutionary Wetware: A Cutting-Edge Technology for Artificial Life and Nanobiotechnologies, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, May 2007.

Nanorobotics, Robotics Selected Links, Mechanical Engineering, ETH-Bibliothek, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, April 2007.

New nanorobotic ideas, in Over the Horizon: Potential Impact of Emerging Trends in Information and Communication Technology on Disability Policy and Practice, National Council on Disability, Washington DC, December 2006.

Computational Nanomechatronics: A Pathway for Control and Manufacturing Nanorobots, Hardware, ACM The Guide to Computing Literature, December 2006.

Autonomous multi-robot sensor-based cooperation for nanomedicine, in Mobile Microscopic Sensors for High-Resolution in vivo Diagnostics, Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology, and Medicine, December 2006.

CMOS-based Nanorobot to Combat Cancer, in “Nano”: The new nemesis of cancer, Journal of Cancer Research and Therapeutics, December 2006.

Autonomous multi-robot sensor-based cooperation for nanomedicine, in Pulsed laser deposition of functionally gradient diamondlike carbon-metal nanocomposites, Diamond and Related Materials, Materials Science, Top 25 Hottest Articles, Science Direct, August 2006.

Nanorobotics control design: A collective behavior approach for medicine, in Nanotechnology: Intelligent design to treat complex disease, Pharmaceutical Research, Alliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer, NCI National Cancer Institute, July 2006.

Nanorobotics control design: A collective behavior approach for medicine, in Toward the emergence of nanoneurosurgery: Part III - Nanomedicine: Targeted nanotherapy, nanosurgery, and progress toward the realization of nanoneurosurgery, Neurosurgery, June 2006.

Assembly automation with evolutionary nanorobots and sensor-based control applied to nanomedicine, in Nanorobot: A versatile tool in nanomedicine, Journal of Drug Targeting, February 2006.

Nanorobotics control design: a collective behavior approach for medicine, MeSH Terms, PubMed, National Center for Biotechnology Information, NIH National Institutes of Health, January 2006.

Nanorobotics, Applications, Bionanotechnology Knowledge Repository, Center for Advanced Engineering Environments, Nasa, ODU, December 2005.

Nanorobotics control design: a collective behavior approach for medicine, in A Review of Research in the Field of Nanorobotics, Sandia Report, Office of Scientific and Technical Information, US Department of Energy, October 2005.

Nanorobotics Control Simulation, Nanorobotics, External Links, Wikipedia - The free encyclopedia, July 2005.

Nanorobotic challenges in biomedical applications, design and control, in Laparoscopic Surgery: Current Status, Issues and Future Developments, Surgeon, June 2005.

Nanorobotics Control Design and 3D Simulation, Computers Robotics Research Papers, Google Directory, February 2005.

Autonomous multi-robot sensor-based cooperation for nanomedicine, in Nanostructured ceramics in medical devices: Applications and prospects, JOM, October 2004.

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