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a team of prototype rugby playing robots showed off their skills yesterday at the festival. Each specially-programmed player is able to tackle opponents, pick up the ball and sprint over the touchline ...

Brazil's World Cup may be in full swing, but teams of robotic players are busy warming up to be in with a chance of lifting another trophy. The mechanical teams are set to battle it out on the pitch ...

Sky Sports pundit Gary Neville reckons the game is full of robots, boring and in need of a reboot because its participants are programmed to take no risks. Those comments came after a Manchester derby ...

Costly squash coaching sessions could be reduced with a social robot from the National Robotarium that analyses performance and provides motivation to players aiming to improve their game. The project ...

BOFFINS have created the world’s first ever ROBOT squash coach. Pepper, which is just under 4 ft tall, has been developed by scientists at the National Robotarium at Heriot-Watt University to help ...

Striker became the 26th man to score a century of top flight goals at the age of 36 PETER CROUCH became the oldest player to bag 100 Premier League goals when he opened the scoring in Stoke’s 1-1 draw ...

Robots that can do the coolest of things - including beating the best basketball players at their own game. A robot called Cue, designed in Japan, is so good he can score three-pointers whenever he ...

That's the view of a top futurologist, who believes we may also see humanoid players on pitches. Dr Ian Pearson, a leading future gazer, is predicting that matches, including those in the Premier ...