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Service Robots: Rise of the Machines (again)


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iRobot PackBot

iRobots PackBot searches caves and tunnels to find or neutralize roadside bombs. Cost: $100,000.

iRobot

In 1961, just after America's Sputnik moment, the world's first industrial robot debuted at a General Motors assembly plant in Trenton, N.J.

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