Hosted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the second Nanosoccer tournament is currently underway at the Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh. This year, only three teams are competing in the 2008 U.S. “RoboCup Open”, in which miniature ...

Adidas and the German Cairos Technologies Company have recently tested Teamgeist II, an intelligent soccer ball, at the FIFA Club World Cup in Japan, 2007. Teamgeist II features new intelligent technology that uses a magnetic field to provide pinpoint accuracy ...

“By mid-21st century, a team of fully autonomous humanoid robot soccer players shall win the soccer game, complying with the official rule of the FIFA, against the winner of the most recent World Cup”. This is the official goal that ...