Ever since the earliest recorded form of football, known as soccer in the U.S., was played in 200 BC, various forms of the Beautiful Game have been invented and reimagined over the years.

More than 500 hours of tinkering went into the project. Naumenko's aim was to build a table soccer robot that can handle the ball as precisely and sensitively as possible in order to better ...

"Table tennis blurs the lines between these control issues with adaptiveness and precision required as more information about an incoming ball becomes available," David Nguyen, co-author of the ...

The original research paper gives some nice parameters that I will need for a soccer ball. Radius = 0.105 meters. density = 74 times the density of air (if I understand the table correctly) ...

Then you play soccer by flicking the ball with your finger. It's like all those table games you played in elementary school, except way more expensive and futuristic, basically.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has received dozens of soccer jerseys and game balls during his eight-year pontificate but he got a new football-themed toy on Wednesday: his very own foosball ...

Compared to German table soccer, though, ... But to progress from a pub player to a professional, the concentration is higher, the control of the ball is higher, it's faster. … ...

Nov. 19, 2012 — -- A soccer ball that doesn't deflate. To some, it may seem like an obvious concept, but for many children in the developing world, it's a dream come true. In some of the ...

The U.S. women’s national soccer team received a one-of-a-kind foosball table featuring 3D-printed replica of each player before jetting off to the FIFA Women’s World Cup.

This Hungarian-born sport involves playing with a soccer ball on a surface that resembles a curved table tennis table. Soccer + table tennis = Teqball? The global sports craze, explained ...