Task 1

Companies :
3DM Inc. - PuraMatrix . The structure resembles a natural collagen with a diameter of 5-10nm and can be put into many things such as tissue regeneration (e.g. bone filling, wound healing), cell therapies & the drug delivery system.


MagForce nanotechnologies ag - NanoTherm Therapy , It is a liquid that is used for the treatment for solid tumors.

 

Task 2

Minimally invasive robotic association is the association that we chose for the association included in this task. It was most similar with what we found and is most similar with what we are trying to do.Their mission is to raise the amount of robotic surgery in the world. There are 17 board members involved in this organization and there are 11 committees involved in  the association.

Task 3

Our design is based off of a very basic walking Quadra-pedal robot that is able to walk. this will be helpful in order to walk across tissue and get across surfaces with ease. They also can fold their legs into the body for easy transport from the method of delivery to the source.

Task 4

For the project I contacted the businesses for information about methods of manufacturing and options for what we could do with our product. Although our project is based mainly on theory and our final product is years away, we got some very use full information.

Thanks for the note.

Cambridge NanoTech expertise lies in a thin film deposition technology call Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD). To create a nano bot would require depositing a large number of films of different properties (insulators, metals, etc.). Additionally, each layer would require specific shape patterning to create the correct electrical and mechanical properties. Designing these shapes and producing these shapes on the thin films are also very specialized skills and outside the expertise of Cambridge NanoTech. I am sure research is taking place at many universities on many of the sub-systems that would be required to produce a nano-scale robot. I am not aware of efforts which have successfully integrated all these components into a stand-alone nanobot. One thing to consider is that a robot will have a number of required sub-systems to create an autonomous, stand alone robot, ie. motors (MEMS), logic (CMOS), power (integrated battery or ultracapacitors).  Each of these sub-systems could have parts that have dimensions on the order of nanometers, but by the time you got all the sub-systems hooked together, it is likely that the best one could do in the short term would be an autonomous robot with dimensions on the order of millimeters or, at best, 100s of microns.

Good luck with your project.

Regards,

Mark

Unfortunately nanobots have not actually been invented yet. Most of the research in recent years has been focused on nanoparticles and enabling technology that may eventually result in nanobots. Lots of interesting research in treating cancer with nanotech though. I suggest doing some keyword searches on our site to see what is currently available.