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July 23, 2014

Tele-robotics puts robot power at your fingertips

At the Smart America Expo, Howard Chizeck, professor of electrical engineering at the University of Washington, showed a system he helped develop where one can log in to a Wi-Fi network in order to tele-operate a robot working in a dangerous environment.

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