大きな潜在能力を持った小さなロボット
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ポール・マキューエンとマーク・ミスキン |
TED@NAS
• November 2019
ロボット研究者のポール・マキューエンとマーク・ミスキンと一緒にミクロの世界を巡りましょう。彼らは微細な脚で動く、細胞１つ分ほどに小さいマイクロロボットをどうやって設計し、大量に生産しているか説明してくれます。将来、マイクロロボットは、農作物の病気と戦ったり、個別のニューロンレベルで脳の研究を行うために「操作」可能になりうると２人は語ります。
ロボット研究者のポール・マキューエンとマーク・ミスキンと一緒にミクロの世界を巡りましょう。彼らは微細な脚で動く、細胞１つ分ほどに小さいマイクロロボットをどうやって設計し、大量に生産しているか説明してくれます。将来、マイクロロボットは、農作物の病気と戦ったり、個別のニューロンレベルで脳の研究を行うために「操作」可能になりうると２人は語ります。
Get a look at nano up-close. Visit a "fab," one of 16 state-of-the-art cleanroom facilities across the country, to see some of the most remarkable pieces of technology ever constructed.
About the speakers
Paul McEuen's research explores the nanoscale world.
Marc Miskin works on the design and fabrication of cell-sized robots.
Richard Feynman | The annual meeting of the American Physical Society at the California Institute of Technology, 1959 | Watch
The physicist Richard Feynman's speech "There's plenty of Room at the Bottom" helped launch the revolution in micro (and later nano) scale devices and systems. He was so far ahead of his time that he could give essentially the same speech in 1984 and have it still be timely.
New Mind | YouTube, 2019 | Watch
This video gives a techy/nerdy introduction to the practical uses of microelectomechanical systems, or MEMs, with applications from airbag sensors to inkjet printers. These devices are the evolutionary precursors to the micro-robots in our talk.
Paul McEuen | Penguin Random House / The Dial Press, 2011 | Book
Science imitates art. This is a science thriller Paul wrote almost a decade ago. It had tiny robots in it long before his research had gone that way.
Paul McEuen | Daedalus, 2012 | Article
In 2012, Paul wrote a perspective piece about the past, present and future of nano. It lays out a broad view of how we can build tiny machinery by stealing from semiconductor technology, hacking biology, or both.
Isaac Asimov | Bantam, 1988 | Book
A classic of the sci-fi genre: a submarine and its crew get miniaturized and injected into the body of a scientist to perform micro-brain surgery. We aspire to one day build a nano-submarine comparable to the Proteus.
| Explore
Marc and Paul both have fond childhood memories of staring into the microverse. Today, it's never been easier to start exploring the world of the small. With a smartphone, 10 dollars and a little bit of time, you can actually build a pretty decent microscope. Go for a 375x magnification microscope and start watching paramecia or even 1000x. Or, if you're old school, there's always Mr. Wizard's way.
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Get a look at nano up-close. Visit a "fab," one of 16 state-of-the-art cleanroom facilities across the country, to see some of the most remarkable pieces of technology ever constructed.