Giant Robot Kicks Football at 200 Km/h

I guess it was only a matter of time before robots started to replace our athletes. Let’s face it, they’ve gotten a little boring, haven’t they? Getting paid thousands of Euros per week to kick a ball around. Bet they can’t kick it as fast as this Castrol build robot!

This monster was build in Japan and can kick a football at over 200km per hour which is roughly 120mph. Unfortunately, it won’t be making its debut on a team any time soon. I can imagine it’s down to the whole ‘killing an opposing player’ thing.

It’s ladled as an exhibition robot and was first launched to the public yesterday. Big news agencies such as Sky News caught it kicking a football on camera. As you can see from the picture above it’s basically a four wheeled machine with a spring loaded ‘foot’ on the left hand side. It’s controlled by a human operator.

This crazy spectacle will be kicking footballs at 200km/h over the next year all over Japan. Check out the power of this thing here.