Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!nanotech From: amutz@iago.caltech.edu (Mutz, Andrew H.) Newsgroups: sci.nanotech Subject: Re: Article in Nature (August 12th, I think ?) Keywords: micromachining, Japan, MITI Message-ID: Date: 20 Sep 90 01:30:47 GMT Sender: nanotech@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: California Institute of Technology Lines: 18 Approved: nanotech@aramis.rutgers.edu In article , arshad@uk.ac.ed.cs (Arshad Mahmood) writes... >Perhaps you can bring to the attention of the list an article in Nature >regarding... a small robotic device which will be able to travel >within the body. There was an article in today's Los Angeles Times referring to the Japanese program to build an intravenous robot. The volume of the first version is targetted to be 1 cubic centimeter. The technology referred to is micro- mechanic rather than nano-scale. Andy Mutz || Andrew H. Mutz | 'The eternal graduate student, || || Caltech 138-78 | still wanders through the night. || || Pasadena CA 91125 | Now it's six years later, || || | and he still keeps up the fight.' || || amutz@caltech.juliet.edu | - with apologies to Warren Zevon, || || | and 'The Eternal Thomson Gunner'||