Posts Tagged ‘RoboCup’
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June 25th, 2009
Supporting the gold team
Will gold retain the cup at the forthcoming RoboCup?
Since 1997, RoboCup has been leading the way in research about robotics and artificial intelligence. In 2007, the US standard’s body NIST conducted a nano-football competition and demonstration in conjunction with RoboCup. NIST’s goal in coordinating a competition between the world’s smallest robots was to show the feasibility and accessibility of technologies for fabricating MicroElectroMechanical Systems (MEMS) devices.
The devices were operated by remote control under an optical microscope and moved in response to changing magnetic fields or electrical signals transmitted across the microchip arena. They were considered “nanoscale” because their masses range from a few nanograms to a few hundred nanograms. The winner of the 2007 event was ETH Zurich whose ‘robot’ consisted of two small pieces of soft magnetic separated by a gold spring and base frame.
magnetic materials on the gold base
In a few weeks it will be the 2009 event - will a gold ‘player’ lift the cup again?!
Richard Holliday
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