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Disaster robots go head-to-head

In California 24 robots are competing to see which can be the first responders of the future - deployed to natural disasters to find survivors and go to places where humans might struggle. Evan Ackerman is from IEEE Spectrum technology magazine and is at the finals - where not all the robots have been as successful as their creators hoped.

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