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Sensors 2008, 8, 2932-2958; DOI: 10.3390/s8052932 OPEN ACCESS sensors ISSN 1424-8220 /sensors Full Research Paper Nanorobot Hardware Architecture for Medical Defense Adriano Cavalcanti 1,2,*, Bijan Shirinzadeh 2, Mingjun Zhang 3 and Luiz C. Kretly 4 1 CAN Center for Automation in Nanobiotech, Melbourne, VIC 3168 Australia; E-mail: adrianocavalcanti@ 2 Robotics and Mechatronics Research Lab., Dept. of Mechanical Eng., Monash University, Clayton, Melbourne, VIC 3800 Australia; E-mail: bijan.shirinzadeh@.au 3 Dept. of Mechanical, Aerospace Biomedical Eng., The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996 USA; E-mail: mjzhang@ 4 Dept. of Microwave and Optics, Electrical Comp. Eng., University of Campinas, Campinas, SP 13083 Brazil; E-mail: kretly@dmo.fee.unicamp.br * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed. Received: 28 January 2008 / Accepted: 29 April 2008 / Published: 6 May 2008 Abstract: This work presents a new approach with details on the integrated platform and hardware architecture for nanorobots application in epidemic control, which should enable real time in vivo prognosis of biohazard infection. The recent developments in the field of nanoelectronics, with transducers progressively shrinking down to smaller sizes through nanotechnology and carbon nanotubes, are expected to result in innovative biomedical instrumentation possibilities, with new therapies and efficient diagnosis methodologies. The use of integrated sys