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Published online 18 March 2004 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news040315-10
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Robolympics contestants shoot for gold
First all-round robotics competition kicks off in San Francisco.
It sounds like any Olympic competition: there will be glory, heartbreak and casualties, and only the best of the best will scoop gold.
But the contestants in this showdown are not built from flesh and blood, nor are they aiming for glory in Athens: they are metal and silicon, and are heading for the world's first Robolympics in San Francisco this weekend.
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