IEEE Nanotechnology Council
TC-1: Technical Committee on Nanorobotics and Nanomanufacturing

since February 2002

Purpose and Scope:

This committee acts within the IEEE Nanotechnology Council and focuses on novel nanoscale robotic and manufacturing systems. Nanotechnology applications require novel manufacturing, manipulation, assembly, integration, analysis, and control tools for system level advanced applications. Recently, nanoscale circuits, devices, structures and mechanisms are becoming more complex, and these tools would be very crucial for the future development. The scope of the technical interests of this TC are basic technologies and key issues in nanorobotics and nanomanufacturing systems.
 

Keywords:

Scanning Probe Microscopy based imaging, manipulation and manufacturing
Nanoscale sensors, actuators, manipulators, and control
Nanoelectromechanical systems
Nanorobotic design
Nanomanipulation
Nanoassembly
Nanofabrication  
Nanoscale system integration
Nanophysics modeling
Nano- and molecular scale energy sources
Nanopositioning
Nanoteleoperation
Medical nanorobots
Bio-Nanomanipulation
Biomimetic nanoscale structures, sensors, actuators, and mechanisms
Directed self-assembly based nanomanufacturing
Integration of self-assembly and precision assembly
Nano- and molecular scale device and circuit manufacturing
Massive nanomanufacturing
High density data storage
Advanced human-machine interfaces for nanorobots


Planning (Tentative):

  1. Organization of Special Sessions, Tutorials, Symposiums, and Workshops.
    1. Organization of special sessions at the IEEE-NANO'03 ( http://ieeenano2003.arc.nasa.gov )
    2. Organization of a tutorial at the IEEE-NANO'03
    3. Nanomanipulation I & II sessions were organized at the IEEE-NANO'01, Maui, conference as the starting of our activities.  There was a news section in the Science magazine issue after the conference including our special session: Nanoscientists Look to the Future , vol. 294, 16 Nov. 2001.
  2. Organization of special issues in the IEEE Trans. on Nanotechnology related to Nanomanipulation, Nanomanufacturing, etc.
  3. Preparing a TC homepage to announce the TC activities, and also advertise the TC members' research activities.
  4. Organize joint activities with other nanotechnology related societies such as ASME, AVS, etc.


Chair:

Metin Sitti
Carnegie Mellon University
msitti@andrew.cmu.edu
 http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~msitti


Members:

Paschalis Alexand ridis
SUNY Buffalo
palexand@ang.buffalo.edu
 http://www.eng.buffalo.edu/~palexand/

Fumihito Arai
Nagoya University, Japan
arai@mein.nagoya-u.ac.jp
http://www.mein.nagoya-u.ac.jp/staff/arai-j.html

Virginia Ayres
Michigan State University
ayresv@egr.msu.edu

George Barbastathis
MIT
gbarb@mit.edu
http://www-me.mit.edu/people/personal/gbarb.htm

Peter Boggild
Delft Technical University, Denmark
pb@mic.dtu.dk

Shaochen Chen
University of Texas at Austin
scchen@mail.utexas.edu
http://www.me.utexas.edu/~scchen/

Eniko Enikov
University of Arizona
enikow@engr.arizona.edu
 http://www.ame.arizona.edu/

Toshio Fukuda
Nagoya University, Japan
fukuda@mein.nagoya-u.ac.jp
http://www.mein.nagoya-u.ac.jp/

Hideki Hashimoto
University of Tokyo, Japan
hashimoto@iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Michael Heller
UC San Diego
mheller@bioeng.ucsd.edu

Won-Jong Kim
Texas A&M University
wjkim@mengr.tamu.edu

William King
Georgia Institute of Technology
william.king@me.gatech.edu

Helmut Knapp
CSEM, Switzerland
helmut.knapp@csem.ch

Luke P. Lee
UC Berkeley
lplee@socrates.berkeley.edu

Xiaochun Li
University of Wisconsin
xcli@engr.wisc.edu
http://www.engr.wisc.edu/me/faculty/li_xiaochun.html

Arun Majumdar
UC Berkeley
majumdar@me.berkeley.edu

Ajay P. Malshe
University of Arkansas
apm2@engr.uark.edu
http://intra.engr.uark.edu/~apm2

Sylvain Martel
MIT
smmartel@MIT.EDU

Constantinos Mavroidis
Rutgers University
mavro@jove.rutgers.edu
 http://bionano.rutgers.edu/
http://cronos.rutgers.edu/~mavro

Arvind Raman
Purdue University
raman@ecn.purdue.edu

Aristides Requicha
University of Southern California
requicha@lipari.usc.edu
http://www-lmr.usc.edu/~lmr/

Taher Saif
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
saif@uiuc.edu

Harry Stephanou
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
hes@car.rpi.edu
 http://www.cat.rpi.edu/

Andreas Stemmer
ETHZ, Switzerland
stemmer@nano.mavt.ethz.ch
http://www.nanotechnology.ethz.ch/

Russell M. Taylor II
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
taylorr@cs.unc.edu
http://www.cs.unc.edu/Research/nano/

Min-Feng Yu
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
mfyu@uiuc.edu
http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~mfyu/group/

Xiang Zhang
UC Los Angeles
xiang@seas.ucla.edu
http://www.seas.ucla.edu/~xiang


updated by Metin Sitti, Jan. 2003