{"id":15,"date":"2004-10-15T17:57:52","date_gmt":"2004-10-15T16:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritoffootball.com\/2006_blog\/?p=15"},"modified":"2010-01-18T22:17:22","modified_gmt":"2010-01-18T22:17:22","slug":"the-perfect-penalty-taking-cyborg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/blog\/2004\/10\/15\/the-perfect-penalty-taking-cyborg\/","title":{"rendered":"The perfect penalty-taking cyborg?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An article on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Register<\/a> entitled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2004\/10\/12\/football_robot\/\" target=\"_blank\">Scientists learn to bend it like Beckham<\/a>&#8221; suggests that the sight of our David skying a spot kick over the goal and into the stands may be numbered. &#8220;Scientists at Loughborough University have developed a system that will measure a football&#8217;s speed and spin, something they say has not been accomplished before&#8221;, reports Lucy Sherriff, and suggests that one outcome of this research may be a &#8220;perfect penalty-taking cyborg&#8221;. Strangely, she goes on to quote a colleague who claims that &#8220;in fact the most confusing ball to face, when standing in goal, is one that doesn&#8217;t spin at all&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Well that clears that one up then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An article on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Register<\/a> entitled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2004\/10\/12\/football_robot\/\" target=\"_blank\">Scientists learn to bend it like Beckham<\/a>&#8221; suggests that the sight of our David skying a spot kick over the goal and into the stands may be numbered. &#8220;Scientists at Loughborough University have developed a system that will measure a football&#8217;s speed and spin, something they say has not been accomplished before&#8221;, reports Lucy Sherriff, and suggests that one outcome of this research may be a &#8220;perfect penalty-taking cyborg&#8221;. Strangely, she goes on to quote a colleague who claims that &#8220;in fact the most confusing ball to face, when standing in goal, is one that doesn&#8217;t spin at all&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Well that clears that one up then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"geo":null,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions\/157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}