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February 17, 2012 12:59 pm

It shoots, it scores

U of M home to what may be world's first hockey-playing robot

Programmers working at the Autonomous Agents Laboratory at the University of Manitoba may have developed the world’s first humanoid-robot ice-hockey player.

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