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Engineering: Molecular Robotics
Molecular robotics is an emerging multidisciplinary field at the intersection of robotics, nanotechnology, nanobiotechnology, synthetic biology, materials science, supramolecular chemistry, biochemistry, biophysics, soft matter physics, microfluidics, systems engineering, and computer science. Molecular robotics aims to integrate devices made from molecules that can sense, compute, and actuate into one system. This bottom-up approach allows creating robotic systems designed from the molecular level at various scales, from the nanoscale (nanorobots) to the macroscale. The collection covers a broad spectrum of topics contributing to the advancement of molecular robotics, such as experimental, theoretical, and social aspects of the field. Specific areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the following topics: Experimental implementation of molecular devices and robots; Application of molecular robots; Theory of molecular robot design and control; Simulation of molecular robot design and control; Ethical, Legal and Social Implications (ELSI) research related to molecular robotics.
See what the Guest Editor Shogo Hamada has to say on Molecular Robotics here.
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Shogo Hamada
Dr Shogo Hamada, Lecturer, Tohoku University, Japan. He received his PhD (Dr.Eng.) at the Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan). After working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Bioengineering and Robotics at Tohoku University, he became a Kavli Postdoctoral Fellow in the Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science, then appointed as Research Associate and Lecturer in the Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering at Cornell University (USA). His research interest lies at the intersection between robotics and nano-bioengineering, especially on molecular robotics.
