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Attempts to stop the oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico have involved robots working 5,000 ft below the surface of the ocean. At U.C. Berkeley, researchers are working on a cockroach-like robot that can locate victims in the midst of unstable, tightly-packed rubble. As a society, are we ready to rely on robots to cope with disasters — to send them where humans can't go?
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