People are waiting for some great football. Here’s a collection of football videos of a different kind. Robots playing against each other. Coming up with effective passes on their own. And they play quite good. At least the ones that have been programmed by pros.

How do these robots work? There’s a camera at the top of the “field”. This camera is connected to a computer. The marks on top of the robots help identify a computer where each robot is. Based on this, a strategy is developed and sent out wirelessly to the robots (bluetooth, FM, wifi, etc).

These competitions are conducted by FIRA, or the Federation of International Robot-soccer Association. Their aim is to promote research, so that a machine team can win against a human team.