Robot sport = Sporting robots are still slow. But their inventors are making rapid strides

The following article is from this week's issue of *The Economist*. It reads like the treatment for a new Futurama movie--even down to the last sentence: "For now their machines have more brains than brawn-though at least they have no penchant for embarrassing partying when the games are over." The Economist must be unfamiliar with Bender.