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Baxter industrial robot brings automation to smaller manufacturers
Flexible aerogel super insulator
Cranial Drilling Device puts a hole in skulls, not brains
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Super sensitive tactile robot finger
Ant behaviour inspires more efficient warehouse robots
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MABEL the running robot
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