This won’t be the first year nanosoccer is played at the 2008 US RoboCup Open, however, this will be the first time the public is allowed to spectate at a soccer game between the microscopic players. The players are, in fact, computer-driven robots the size of unicellular organisms, and their ball will have the diameter of a human hair.
The nanobots will demonstrate thus their capacities of response to computer control, maneuverability, and ability to move objects. All these could prove extremely useful in primarily the medical and technological areas, in applications such as microsurgery in our bodies or manufacturing nano components for microscopic electronic devices.
