New trends in bio-nanorobotics usin virtually reality technologies

Abstract

The scientific community has been working in the field of VR for some years now, having recognized it as a very powerful human computer interface. Although many of the described technologies have been developed into more or less mature products for robots acting in the macro-world, the nano-size of the robots poses extreme challenges and requires a complete rethinking of the visual and haptic perception of nanoworld. Using simulated nanoenvironments in VR, the operator can design and characterize through physical simulation the behavior of nano and bionanorobots. Adding haptic interaction, the operator can explore and prevent the problems of nano and bionano robots in their native environment. This article describes some of the emerging applications of VR currently underway in the field of bio-nanorobotics