By early 2003, 106 teams had emerged from the ranks of university students, robot clubs and off-road-vehicle enthusiasts.

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With this in mind Dr Hover and Mr Englot, along with a team of colleagues, used a robot known as the Hovering Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (HAUV), which was developed at MIT and has since been commercialised by a company called Bluefin Robotics.

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Robots are getting better at co-operating with each other: in some car plants a big robot now lifts a small one inside the vehicle to assemble components.

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The vehicle will be based on its Curiosity robot, which landed on the Red Planet in August.

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The terrain proved difficult for the army bomb disposal team - their first robot toppled over during a squall and a second vehicle was sent in to deal with the suspect device.

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He said that the PSNI inspected the vehicle using a remote controlled "wheelbarrow" robot and found two gas cylinders, a length of wiring and a car battery.

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Depending on which vehicle it's programmed to build, the robot will reach out to one conveyor belt for the side panels of an Armada or Titan, and another for the side panels of a Quest.

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The robot known as GROVER, which stands for both Greenland Rover and Goddard Remotely Operated Vehicle for Exploration and Research, will roam the frigid landscape collecting measurements to help scientists better understand changes in the massive ice sheet.

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Honda will not reveal how much it has spent developing the robot but Mr Keeney said it was considerably less than is spent on developing a prototype vehicle.

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