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The world's first soccer-playing robots were built at UBC

Dr. Alan Mackworth of the Computer Science department proposed and built the world's first soccer-playing robots.

This led to the development of robot soccer as the premier global platform for multi-agent robotic research through the International RoboCup Foundation.

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