The World’s Smallest Robots: Rise of the Nanomachines

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anomachines – including nano-sized motors, rockets and even cars – are many orders of magnitude smaller than a human cell, but they have huge promise. In the future, they could deliver drugs anywhere in the body, clean up oil spills and might even be used as artificial muscle cells.

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Producer:
Elaine Seward
Sean Parsons

Writer:
Sophia Cai

Executive Producer:
Adam Dylewski

Scientific consultants:
Rigoberto Advincula, Ph.D.
Darcy Gentleman, Ph.D.
Sophia Cai

Music:
Strut Funk by Dougie Wood

References/video sources:
Controlling Motion at the Nanoscale Level: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/a…
Switches: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/n…
Shuttles: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/b…
Turnstiles: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/i…
Elevators: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/j…
Nanocars:http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/j…
Nanorockets: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRxyN…
Nanorockets: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/suppl/10.1021…
Nanomotors: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/suppl/10.1021…
Nanocars: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/suppl/10.1021…
Nanocars: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/n…
Nanobots: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/j…
Nanosubmaries: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfNQU…