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16 April 2014 Powering nanorobotic devices: challenges and future strategies
Krishna Moorthi Sankar
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Abstract
Nanotechnology, even after 55 years since its foundation (1959 Richard Feynman’s speech - ‘There is lot of space in the bottom’), is still in its infancy. However, of late, there has been a large increase in the research being done in this field in many prominent Universities and Research institutions across the globe. Nanorobotics is the combination of Nanotechnology and the science of Robotics, to create robots that are only a few nanometres (10-9 metres) in size. Nanobots are yet to be made. But with the current pace of ongoing researches, scientists predict that nanobots will be made a reality by next ten years. The main proposed function of nanobots is to use them in the medical field to interact with cells or intra-cellular substances and prevent or reverse structural and genetical problems and diseases.

One of the major challenges faced while creating a nanobot to travel through human body is to power it. Nanobots would require a very small yet highly potential source of energy. There are many hypothesised energy sources for nanobots which are either already available within the human body naturally or which are to be supplied externally. But, all of these energy sources pose a few challenges which need to be addressed if they are to be used to power nanobots. These challenges can be overcome using a number of strategies that can be used to make an economically, ecologically and medically viable energy source.
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Krishna Moorthi Sankar "Powering nanorobotic devices: challenges and future strategies", Proc. SPIE 9060, Nanosensors, Biosensors, and Info-Tech Sensors and Systems 2014, 90601L (16 April 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2053719
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KEYWORDS
Blood

Solar energy

Nanorobotics

Quantum dots

Solar cells

Electrons

Robots

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