According to Howard Lovy by way of Nanodot, a talk by Mikhail Roco at the Nanomanufacturing Summit in Boston mentioned “molecular nanosystems” (slide 5) and “Hierarchical nanomanufacturing with atomic/molecular precision” (slide 29).

Hey, wait a second. I thought all this talk about molecular manufacturing was just the province of a few nutcases who only cite each other’s papers and have no mainstream academic respectability.