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Getting Robots to Play Together
from the Boston Globe (Registration Required)
Cambridge -- Two soccer teammates took the field on a recent Saturday afternoon: one made shot after shot while the other played goalie.
The shooter, wearing a distinctive uniform dotted with colorful spots, had just taken a powerful kick when something went wrong. The call went out to stop practice--and to find a hot glue gun.
"Something is hanging off," Svilen Kanev, a Harvard University sophomore and member of Robotic Futbol Club Cambridge, said as fellow students picked up the cylindrical black robot to administer first aid.
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