The RoboCup Soccer Competition has a new category — nanobots.

Each smaller than a grain of salt but no less able than their normal-sized counterparts, the football-kicking nanorobots will compete in three events: the 2-millimeter Dash, the Slalom Drill, and the Ball-handling Drill. They are controlled remotely and use magnetic fields or electrical impulses sent across the floor of the arena to power themselves up.

The video below shows a bot from University of Zurich’s Team IRIS.

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{Intriguing: The Dancing Robot makes other robots shit oil in their pants}