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Battling bots: Exploring Saskatoon's combat robotics scene

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Three minutes in the ring to destroy your opponent, that's all it takes for some of these battle bots to flatten their competitor. 650 CKOM's Brittany Caffet takes us into the ring with the engineers behind the bots in Behind the Headlines.

21 Jan English Canada News

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