It's pretty jawesome that robots can play soccer and win a RoboCup for their efforts. In continuation of the future-swoon from my previous artificial intelligence post, it will definitely be the future when we can play robot teams at sports. The beauty is that if they got too good we could lower the difficulty setting! I can even picture the scandals now: performance enhancing CPU overclocking, etc.
But the RoboCup tournament organizers are shooting for a playable robot soccer team by 2050 so I guess I have some time to kill. So how about some nano-soccer under an optical microscope? That's totally doable! Check out this Swiss nano-soccer-bot scoring goals with a nanoball (microdisk) which also competed at RoboCup.

Originally found at OhGizmo and then here about RoboCup 2007.