Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!know!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!nanotech From: arshad@uk.ac.ed.cs (Arshad Mahmood) Newsgroups: sci.nanotech Subject: Article in Nature (August 12th, I think ?) Message-ID: Date: 17 Sep 90 18:38:15 GMT Sender: nanotech@athos.rutgers.edu Lines: 20 Approved: nanotech@aramis.rutgers.edu Hi JoSH (sorry to be familiar, but I didn't know any other name), Perhaps you can bring to the attention of the list an article in Nature (August 12th I think ?) regarding a project which has just been approved by MITI (Japan) to build a small robotic device which will be able to travel within the body. The aims at this stage are somewhat sketchy byt it's not really nanotechnology, rather micro-technology (if that !) but it will put money into the kind of research which this group is about. If you've already posted details about this, then sorry for the inconvenience. A. Mahmood ... [Well, volume is pretty low now, and I hadn't seen that particular reference. The doings of MITI in the field of actual nanotechnology are talked about in the article "The Japanese Lead" in Update 9 (posted here not too long ago, and available for FTP from the archives). --JoSH]