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Mike Hamer lives in Zürich, Switzerland, where he studies and researches robotics and computer learning at the ETH. Coming from a background of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Mike is primarily focused on the control and software aspects of robotics, and has a particular interest in heterogeneous swarms, robot-human swarms, and distributed learning. 
    
 
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