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P. Kopacek:
"Automation in Sports and Entertainment";
in: "Springer Handbook of Automation", S. Nof (ed.); issued by: Springer; Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, 2009, ISBN: 978-3-540-78830-0, 1313 - 1331.

A service robot has to be intelligent, mobile, and able to cooperate with other robots and devices. We are on the way towards multirobot systems in which several robots, called multiagent systems (MAS), will act in a cooperative way together a common task. One of the newest application areas of service robots and especially MAS is the field of entertainment, leisure, and hobby. People have more free time, and modern information technologies lead to loneliness of humans (teleworking, telebanking, teleshopping, etc.). Entertainment robots are expected to be one of the real frontiers of the next decade.
In this chapter a short description of such robots will be given, including some application examples. Due to the broad range of possible applications of robots in entertainment, leisure, and hobby, the following classification has been made in order to give this contribution a basic structure: robot construction sets, sports assistants, promotion and public relations, robots in the entertainment industry, personal robots, humanoid robots, and competition robots.
As an example, robot soccer competitions will be described in more detail. Finally an outlook on future development trends will be given.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78831-7