Automated robot-based nanomanipulation is one of the key challenges in
microsystem technology and nanotechnology, which has recently been addressed by
a rising number of R&D groups and companies all over the world.
Controlled, reproducible assembly processes at the nanoscale will enable
high-throughput manufacturing of revolutionary products and open up new
application fields. The ultimate goal of these research activities is the
development of automated nanomanipulation processes to build a bridge between
existing precise handling strategies for micro and nanoscale objects and aspired
high-throughput fabrication of microsystems and nanosystems. Despite the growing
interest in automated nanomanipulation, there is hardly any publication that
treats this research in a coherent and comprehensive way. This paper is an
attempt to provide the researcher with an overview of the most important trends
and developments in this rapidly expanding technology. It also informs the
practising engineer and the engineering student about automation at the
nanoscale level as well as about the promising fields of application. The latter
can be of a very different nature as nanohandling is strongly interdisciplinary
in character. This paper offers a deeper insight into nanohandling aspects of
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