After watching that video, the first thing that came to mind was "most of us will see robots playing sports" in our lifetimes. I'm already convinced Hollywood studios will be doing away with real human actors for the large part, as a way to maximize profits. Why wouldn't sports businesses that employ humans that cost millions of dollars per year want to replace them with robots that only cost what they do to build and maintain?
If say the NFL didn't want to continue paying human players, they could certainly create a league that would be all robots. Who knows, they might find that humans actually like watching robots more. I don't know.
One thing I do know is you wouldn't have to worry about "educational mission" and "NIL" anymore if you were a university fielding all robot teams playing the sports people want to watch. There would of course be a need to regulate the operations of the games, have height and weight limits, etc. It would be team sports meets Formula One construction regulations. Like, for Football, each team can have X pounds worth of Offensive Lineman, and Y combined arm length. You can get the idea.
It just seems inevitable that there will be robot sports leagues at the rate things are going. If Stanford had a robot Football team that had absolutely nothing to do with the school's education mission whatsoever, and the robots weren't paid and couldn't transfer, would you see this as a solution or a problem to what is vexing the Stanford sports community these days?
