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Robotic Industry Consortium Forms To Meet DoD Challenge

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Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

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The Robotics Technology Consortium Inc. (RTC) yesterday announced its launch with over 70 initial organizations. The consortium was established to meet a need identified by the Office of the Secretary of Defense Joint Ground Robotics Enterprise (OSD/JGRE) and held its first member meeting on June 20 in Arlington, Va. The RTC was created to support top-tier research within the robotic technology community to speed the deployment of technology from the lab to operational deployment. To meet this goal, the RTC…

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