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Five U.S. Teams Compete In Worldwide Defense Robot Challenge

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Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

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Five Teams from the United States will be among 12 teams from five countries competing in the first round of Australia's MAGIC 2010 robot challenge, sponsored by the Australian Defence Science & Technology Organization, and the U.S. Defense Department. MAGIC invited worldwide proposals to develop teams of fully autonomous robots for military operations. Twenty-three entries were received from the United States, Canada, Poland, Japan, South Korea, Turkey and Australia. "The quality of the submissions was very strong and exceeded our…

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