Eight undergraduate students at the University of Waterloo, Canada are working on the world’s smallest radio frequency controlled robot which, when completed, would measure only 300 microns by 300 microns. The robot can play soccer on a field that is smaller than a period at the end of the sentence and after scoring a goal; it can do a happy dance. In fact, this radio-controlled robot has many other applications, especially because it could be put into somebody’s veins or blood vessels and it would not even disturb the biological system. This may have far reaching applications in assisting fertilization of an egg, diagnosing etc. The robot can then be controlled using a laptop. The fact that it is being developed by undergraduate students is something to be appreciated.

Price and Availability: The students are still looking for sponsors and are offering the smallest ad space on the robot too! However, the development of the robot can take a while.

Watch This: The students, Edgar Cao, Michael Kwan, Julianne Kline, Nabil Faruk, Rohan Mahimker, Syed Afzal, Peiris and Law are really doing a great job and thanks to the encouraging faculty, they may see the robot being developed really soon. This may help many medical health professionals, engineers, nanotechnologists and even have entertainment applications.

Word around the Web:

Peiris says:

“The idea of making a tiny nanorobot in undergraduate studies is pretty far-fetched,”

Source: TheRecord