No Need For Real Players Anymore

That’s it, ladies and gents. It’s only a matter of time before Big Bucks Abramovich is swooping down in his helicopter and he’s buying up the best robots money can buy.

This is Goalias. He’s a robot designed by the University of Stuttgart in the mold of a goalkeeper (presumably after the home team’s Champions League run). Goalias is a cardboard cut out placed on a running track attached to video cameras and all sorts of fancy equipment which, as you can see, can track the path of the ball. First player to test it out was Mario Gomez. The robot saved half of Mario’s shots, which isn’t much more than the goalkeepers of the Bundesliga can say.

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