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When the innovation makes play nano-robots

A Swiss team of researchers gained a robot-like competition of
football thanks to a device of a few microns. Of this invention could emerge of
new applications, in particular in

BioMicroRobotics
.

Organized for the first time this year, Nanogram league, foot ballistic competition of RoboCup
2007
, devoted the victory of a Swiss robot measuring just 300 microns out of 300. To carry it, the researcher Dominic Frutiger of the ETH Zurich Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems (IRIS)

My favorite visual illusion

Seeing without seeing. Even if you’ve seen this beore, it’s worth seeing again. The following link is to a video of two teams (white and black) playing a ball game. Your task is to watch the white team and carefully count how many times they pass the ball (concentration is important).