Soccer Player Robots at Robocup 2010 in Germany

If you wonder whether sporty robots will one day be able to compete with our best athletes, well we believe we already have a good start for a response on that. It's no longer a question of robots that play soccer by moving about slowly. The soccer players at the Robocup German Open 2010 have gone on to the next stage: they're evolving with pretty surprising speed; they pass and shoot in the goal with good accuracy. Eindhoven's Techunited team which won the German soccer tournament provides us with this superb video worthy of a World Cup and which speaks volumes about the progress made by these robots: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agHBb8KCTZg