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The highest bid so far on Friday was 3,500 dollars from a woman in Ontario to free the lobster, he added. "Liberating him is probably the right thing to do, but we'll see."
Fisheries officials have also said they must give it a check-up to ensure it is disease-free and sign a permit before the lobster can be returned to the sea.
Held annually since 1997, the RoboCup, one of the world's largest demonstrations of robotics, will take place in the southern city of Graz in July 2009, organiser Gerald Steinbauer said Friday.
"Robot-football is more than just entertainment. It is the ideal sceanario for developing moving robots in a mobile environment," said Steinbauer, a robotics specialist at Graz Technical University.
On the sidelines of the tournament, international experts will give public lectures on the latest developments in robotics and artificial intelligence.