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• Tuesday, Oct 20, 2009 @ 17:39:33 PM
• Written by Zeke Piestrup

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This skiing robot navigates autonomously (that means without a remote control) using video camera and other sensors. Developed by Bojan Nemec at the Jozef Stefan Institute in Slovenia.  The robot is certainly impressive, but the voice over is classic.

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