“Molecular Robotics” is an interdisciplinary field that spans many areas, including chemistry, biology, and information science, as well as physics, materials science, and mechanical engineering. This society fosters the foundations of molecular robotics by strengthening ties among related researchers, while also keeping in mind new collaboration among academia, industry, and government.
“Molecular Robotics” is a field that aims to build systems—namely “molecular robots”—by using biomolecules such as nucleic acids, proteins, and lipids as primary materials, molecularly designing the basic elements of robots (e.g., sensors for detection, processors for computation, and motors for actuation), and integrating these molecular components. We seek to understand the principles behind molecular design and system integration, and to apply the designed molecules and systems (molecular robots).
The foundational disciplines range widely, including natural sciences, engineering, informatics, medicine, and the humanities. We aim to fuse existing fields (physics, chemistry, biology, materials, mechanical engineering, medicine, informatics, the humanities, etc.) and to create new research domains.
Today, molecular robotics continues to pursue fundamental scientific principles, while also entering a phase of development that looks ahead to medical and industrial applications.
List of Supporters
In establishing the society (April 1, 2023), we received support from the following professors (honorifics omitted; affiliations are as of that time).
We would like to take this opportunity to express our sincere gratitude.
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