UM: Robots

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ABC News in Australia reports that a UM team led by assistant professor Edwin Olson won the $750,000 top prize in the Multi Autonomous Ground-robotics International Challenge (MAGIC). The competition was sponsored jointly by the Australian and U.S. defense forces, according to the report. Says Olson: “The idea is that the humans can be safely far away from the danger zone and the robots do all the low-level work to gather that information.” [Source]