Japanese Soccer Robot Will Maim World Cup Opponents

Japanese Soccer Robot Will Maim World Cup Opponents

Frustrated by the fact that their country has never won a World Cup soccer championship, Japanese scientists have developed a robot that can kick a soccer ball over 200 kilometers an hour. (That’s about 125 MPH in American.) Japan hopes to field a team of these motorized super-players in this year’s tournament, which kicks off in South Africa in June. As demonstrated in the horrific video above, the potentially lethal machine can blast appendages off any defender foolhardy enough to try to defend the net. “Do not stand in the way of our soccer robot’s power,” warned Japan’s Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Tatsuo Kawabata. “We will achieve a World Cup victory. We will stop at nothing.”