Imagine a robot David Beckham six times smaller than an amoeba playing with a” soccer ball “is not wider than a human hair … with all the action takes place on the field of the size of rice grain. It may sound like science fiction, but the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), nanosoccer is a serious matter. NIST, the U.S. federal agency that advances innovation and competitiveness in partnership with industry, universities and other organizations to lead us to a future where robots smaller than the eye can see are being work in a variety of ways. NIST holds its competitions and demonstrations Nanosoccer in conjunction with RoboCup, an international organization dedicated to using the game of soccer as a testing ground for technologies of the future of robotics. NIST goal in coordinating competitions between the world’s smallest robots known as nanobots (nanoscale robots)-is to show the feasibility and accessibility of technologies for the manufacture of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), tiny mechanical devices built on Semiconductor chips and measured in micrometers (millionths of a meter). Nanorobots football are managed by remote control under an optical microscope. They move in response to changing magnetic fields or electrical signals transmitted across the microchip arena. Although robots are a few tens of micrometers to a few hundred micrometers long, they are considered “nanoscale” because their masses range …
