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Amazon Robotics Challenge 2017 won by Australian budget bot | BBC News
Cartman – a budget-priced robot from Australia – has triumphed in an annual contest to create a machine that can identify, pick up and stow warehouse goods.
The bot was designed from scratch to take part in 2017’s Amazon Robotics Challenge and used a radically different design to past winners.
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