The Nanorobotics Research Group, a technology project involving collaboration across five departments at five universities, including the University of Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam University, and Nottingham University, is having an open day and workshop in Sheffield next Monday. I hope some valuable insights and dialogue come out of it.

The Nanorobotics Research Group is interesting and important because it's actually engaged in intelligently-directed manipulations at the atomic scale, rather than hands-off self-assembly, nano-particle doping, exploiting various inherent properties of nanotubes, and the like. You might call it the difference between nanorobotics and nanotechnology in general. While all fields of nanotechnology are important, I believe that nanorobotics represents the long-term future of nanotechnology research.