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Miniature Robots Play Nano-Soccer

Sunday, July 08, 2007 1:34:15 PM
By GREG BLUESTEIN

A member of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich robotics team  shows the field that the team's entry in the Nano Cup robotics competition will be placed on Saturday, July 7, 2007 at Georgia Tech in Atlanta. The first event was the two-millimeter dash. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)ATLANTA (AP) - Exploding from the other end of the field, a silver robot glinted under the light of the cameras and burst toward the lone defender standing between it and the goal.

That's when the "Whirling Dervish," as its creators call it, lived up to its name, spinning furiously in a show of razzle-dazzle. But suddenly, the robot stopped dead in its tracks, hopelessly mired as if it were stuck on superglue.

A metal arm appeared to rescue the wayward robot, but it was no crane — it was an acupuncture needle. And the field it plucked the robot from was hardly the size of a grain of rice.


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