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+# Robot
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+Robot is a bot for Twitch.TV IRC that learns from people and responds to them with things that it has learned.
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+For project management reasons, this repository now represents a complete rewrite of Robot.
+The version RobotIsBroken is running is [v0.1.0](https://github.com/zephyrtronium/robot/tree/v0.1.0).
+Links that RobotIsBroken posts in chat refer to that version.