Robot soccer improving

This is only consistent with the goal of having a robot soccer team beat the human world champion team by 2050 (the ultimate goal of this competition). I believe it will be achieved long before that. The advancement of algorithms for object recognition, autonomous navigation combined with the ever increasing processing power of AI, improving mechanical abilities of humanoid robots will bring robots into our daily lives pretty soon. One just need to look at a couple years back in ths event as well as say, DARPA grand challenge for autonomous vehicles, to see how rapid the advancement is. For a video click here