You really need to be a geek to appreciate what is going on here. I am a geek and proud of it.
There is one member of this forum (and I am certain only one , no offense) who could design an elecrtomechanical foosball player to compete with the one in the video. I would suspect that hydraulic actuators would be used .
What better marketing tool could anyone come up with better than this? Given your history of computer controlled Chess and Othello and obvious expertise in motion control, would you like to challenge?
This would be a hit at any industrial trade show in the world!! I can see customers lining up already.
Granted, I do understand the monumental committment of time and resources that would be required to pull this off. Charge it to R&D and marketing.