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	Nanosoccer

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5-24-2008 2:41 PM

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nanotechnology. nanosoccer, robocup, robots, nist, mems

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5-24-2008 4:19 PM

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Amazing. It's a slow process, but we're watching the future unfold in front of us.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/7e97a205-21c9-4263-aa60-3b64c03cdc05/B19A1A05-E921-478F-9057-6668BC7AB461/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/calmed/robocup_photos.html" href="http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/calmed/robocup_photos.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nist.gov</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/calmed/robocup_photos.html"><P class="style6">Welcome to Nanosoccer!</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/calmed/robocup_photos.html"><P class="style7">Imagine a mechanical Pelé or David Beckham six times smaller than an amoeba playing with a “soccer ball” no wider than a human hair on a field that can fit on a grain of rice. Purely science fiction?  Not anymore.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/calmed/robocup_photos.html"><SPAN class="style2"><IMG width="273" height="172" alt="photograph of the microchip" src="http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/calmed/robocup10.jpg" />
Microchip with Nanosoccer Fields of Play</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/calmed/robocup_photos.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.nist.gov/img/9132F7D8-42D4-490C-8F60-712D8F05CBE2" alt="nanosoccer ball" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/calmed/robocup_photos.html"><SPAN class="style2">Nanosoccer Ball
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About 200 of these robots could stretch in a line across the top of a plain M&M candy.</P></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.medgadget.com/archives/2008/05/video_of_a_nanosoccer_bot.html" href="http://www.medgadget.com/archives/2008/05/video_of_a_nanosoccer_bot.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.medgadget.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.medgadget.com/archives/2008/05/video_of_a_nanosoccer_bot.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.medgadget.com/img/26B2FEC9-2866-4DB8-A48D-47C9F01F24AF" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.medgadget.com/archives/2008/05/video_of_a_nanosoccer_bot.html"><H1><A title="Video of a Nanosoccer Nanobot" href="http://www.medgadget.com/archives/2008/05/video_of_a_nanosoccer_bot.html ">Video of a Nanosoccer Nanobot</A></H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.medgadget.com/archives/2008/05/video_of_a_nanosoccer_bot.html"><P>This is a follow up video to our post about the upcoming <A title="Nanosoccer 2008 US RoboCup Open" href="http://medgadget.com/archives/2008/05/public_invited_to_see_nanosoccer_2008_us_robocup_open.html">Nanosoccer 2008 US RoboCup Open</A>. 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