Voice of America: Fetch! Robot Retrievers Compete in $1.5 Million NASA Contest

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Fetch! Robot Retrievers Compete in $1.5 Million NASA Contest Jun 5th 2013, 22:07 Eleven robots faced off in a Massachusetts field on Wednesday, showing off their ability to independently track down objects in a hunt for $1.5 million in prize money at a NASA-sponsored contest aimed at speeding technological development.   In the first day of a three-day event, robots designed by teams from the United States, Canada and Estonia set out from a platform in a two-acre (0.8-hectare) park at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, Massachusetts, to search among rolling ... Media files: 889D859E-BD65-485F-BA23-7B93BD4775C4_cx0_cy0_cw0_w800_r1.jpg (image/jpeg, 0 MB)

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