Abstract
Mechatronics systems, a macroscopic domain, aim at producing highly efficient engineering platforms, with applications in a variety of industries and situations. On the other hand, quantum technologies, a microscopic domain, are emerging as a promising avenue to speed up computations and perform more efficient sensing. Recently, these two fields have started to merge in a novel area: quantum mechatronics. In this review article, we describe some developments produced so far in this respect, including early steps into quantum robotics, macroscopic actuators via quantum effects, as well as educational initiatives in quantum mechatronics.
Highlights
Received: 7 September 2021Accepted: 6 October 2021Published: 12 October 2021Publisher’s Note: MDPI stays neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.The purpose of this review is to describe some of the recent literature connecting the fields of mechatronics and quantum technologies
We describe recent results in the literature connecting the fields of mechatronics and quantum technologies, in the sense exposed above, in a novel area that we call “quantum mechatronics”
Ref. [11], our definition of quantum mechatronics differs from that work, which is more related to nanoelectromechanical systems
Summary
Publisher’s Note: MDPI stays neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. The purpose of this review is to describe some of the recent literature connecting the fields of mechatronics and quantum technologies. The former is mainly an area of mechanical engineers, while the latter is an area of quantum technologists and scientists. We do not aim at being exhaustive with the literature we describe, but to provide an overview of what, in our view, is recent and useful research productivity that serves to connect both fields. The aim of this review is to motivate both communities to work together toward a common goal of incorporating quantum technologies into mechanical engineering devices, for enhanced communication, computation, and sensing
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