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Construction workers can now actually 'wear on' a robot to assist tedious job!
Jan 29 2008, Siddhesh

Robotics, at present, has a long way to go if your imagination of robots is confined to movies like ‘Terminator’ or other such fictitious comic characters. However, slowly it may be, robots are certainly finding their way into our lives. We may be...

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