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We're just trying to order hosting
the DARPA robotics challenge

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testing of the from march fourth
through the twelfth 2015 the

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DARPA robotics challenge or de rc
is a robotic systems and saw

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14 competition to develop disaster
response robots. These robots

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are able to work wirelessly in manmade
or natural disasters owns

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the may have been previously inaccessible
by a human being.

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Gilda competition has only been around
for a few years Gil pratt

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the darker program manager says the
amount of teams participating

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continues to grow.

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The men's going tremendously. Uh
we start out with around 11

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teams the TARP was finding an added
to that has been 14 teams

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that are coming from other parts of
the world and so this includes

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fame from japan this five teams coming
from their came from south

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korea and also came from
the european union.

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Also invited several local schools
and educational programs out

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to the dea rc training event to get
a hands on look at the future

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of robotics in disaster relief.

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First in bonn I jrotc student from
west ashley highschool charlson

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softer wine. I'm says that robotics
has always been something

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he's interested in it's always been
a fascination of mine because

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I grew up on science fiction and
you know a science fiction is

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always pushing the boundaries of
what is real and what isn't

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and you know I look around the
day and I see it like science

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fiction is starting to become like
science reality all the final

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competition is held until june teams
from around the world got

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a chance to test and refine their
potentially lifesaving robots

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reporting from joined a straw Austin.
I'm senior ehrman michael reached..