Saturday June 15, 2002

Pretty stiff requirements for soccer players to qualify for this match: they have to stand on one leg for a whole minute. Then again these players are all robots in the sixth annual Robocup.

Maybe by the time these robots are ready to play humans the players will be able to recover from chance collisions faster by slapping on these jello bandages:

John Kao's invention is sort of like a molecular version of Jell-O salad - it's made from gelatin, turns into a solid and has stuff suspended in it. But, instead of containing marshmallows and chunks of fruit, it has molecules and cells that repair damaged tissue.