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US Engineers Begin Work On Tenacious, Tool-Finding MacGyver Robot

Posted October 09, 2012 3:23 PM

From ExtremeTech:

A team of US-based engineers, funded by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) and DARPA, has begun the development of a MacGyverbot - a robot that, like the tenacious TV hero MacGyver, can interact with its environment in novel ways to solve problems.

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10/10/2012 8:31 AM

Ohhh goodie goodie, now they can send it my way to erect a 450-foot long stockade fence!

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