Top down positional assembly
From apm
This is about:
- Using (A) macrsocale to mesoscale robotic devices to
- assemble (B) nanoscale to microscale products.
Examples
(A) – Listed in increasing size of manipulabe parts:
- SPM microscopes for active manipulations of very small parts down to single atoms
- MEMS grippers for manipulating parts big enough to be grippable by them
(B) – Listed in increasing size of manipulated parts:
- Piezomechanosynthesis - direct path
- Folded-foldamer pushing approach
- Robo approach in top-down context (manipulating really large finished self-assemblies)
