What if robots tried to play football...?

Can you imagine a football match being played by advanced robots?

If you think they'd be playing like Messi and Ronaldo.... sadly you'd be wrong.

Instead the machines at a ROBO League football tournament in Beijing, China didn't really show off any super-silky skills.

There were goals but there was actually lots of bumping into each other and falling over too.

The THU Robotics from Tsinghua University (in purple bibs), beat the Mountain Sea team (in black bibs) from China Agricultural University 5-3 to win.

The event served as a preview to the upcoming World Humanoid Robot Games, being held in China in August.