The Robo Olympics which took place recently and featured the robo cup.The goal - pardon the pun - is quite ambitious…."Robo soccer is a part of the Robo Cup initiaitive with the ultimate goal of getting robots to be able to beat the world cup soccer team on a real soccer field" or as another geek put it "A robot that can kick a ball on that can localize on a field can also localize in any other environment." Indeed…

So, forget about dodgy meta tarsals, the team of the future needs R2D2 as keeper, the Daleks at centre back and C3PO hogging the box, and as for team transport– it’s gotta be Kitt from Knight Rider.