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Marubot Football League Puts Real Robots Into Arcade Cabinets, Pits Them Against Each Other

Video games are fun.  Having physical robots crush each other’s head, however, is way more entertaining.  While the Marubot Football League isn’t exactly Robot Wars, having four mobile mini-androids tossing balls and making goals across a playing table sounds just as enticing.
Is it more fun than foosball?  Given that you control inanimate men on a stick on one versus moving robots with actual faces on the other, there’s no contest.  That’s right, your robot will have a face – one that beams when it scores, feigns sadness when it loses a goal and gets really angry during a tied game.

The first arcade game of its kind, the Marubot uses a large gaming cabinet about the size of an Air Hockey table.  Four sets of controls (two joysticks and a turbo button) are installed around the sides, along with time and score displays. Up to four players can get on the [...]