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Robotic competitions are becoming more common - and more interesting!

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This competition (see http://www.robo-one.com/index.html) pits humanoid robots against each other in autonomous martial arts competitions. Commercial mini-humanoids sold in Japan are the starting point, but they are usually heavily modified and reprogramed. This year's event was "the first one where the robots actually looked like they were fighting each other" - Click the image for a movie of these robots battling it out!

Another image, showing multiple robots in competition

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- Aristotle, from his justification of slavery in Politics