Molecular technologies enabling Molecular Robotics, the Ultimate Miniature Machines

The modern world is filled with macroscopic machines that perform work that we either find demanding or function in places or on length scales in which we cannot act. To date however, we have yet to develop a functional nanotechnology that operates on the scale of molecules or assemblies of molecules. Scientists from a range of disciplines are working to understand, design, and create the next generation of switches and motors to mechanize our world from the bottom up.