Soccer goes high tech at the Robot World Cup

Why watch real people exert energy playing sports when you can just watch robots do it!? Well, that is the general idea behind the Robot World Cup, or RoboCup, held in Istanbul, Turkey.

Year's top searches center on BP and soccer

The BP oil spill proved more interesting than any celebrity this year, according to Yahoo's round-up of the top search queries of the year.

Robots learn physics to hone football skills

Carnegie Mellon scientists are teaching physics to robots to improve their soccer-playing performance.