In the video above, taken from a Japanese game show, legendary Barcelona striker faces off against what is billed as an amazing “robot goalkeeper.” Few human keepers can hope to stop a Messi ...

Goooooal! The RoboCup held its annual four-day competition in Nagoya, Japan, last week, seeing robots from all round the world competing for techno-supremacy. RoboCupSoccer, one of the five ...

Lionel Messi has appeared (twice) in a new advert for Qatari telecommunications company Ooredoo. Messi can be seen watching from the sidelines as a group of youngsters struggle against their ...

Like many other robots we keep seeing recently, it’s of the headless dog-like variety, only unlike the others it’s not meant to perform a specific, useful task, but built to play soccer.