Laboratory robots for use in the field of nanotechnology; mechanisms for grasping, rotating, moving and assembling nanotechnology components; microscale assemblers; nanoscale assemblers; macroscale assemblers; nanotechnology research tools and nanotechnology equipment and attachments to same for manipulation and/or characterization of nanotechnology materials, namely grippers, clamps, nanomechanical probes, probes, actuators and related attachments for microscopes, and nanomanipulators; micro...