But, you can also drive them into the kitchen of a townhouse, points out Takeshi Matsunaga, project advisor at Toyota Auto Body.

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Notably, a founding advisor to the Project, Harvard professor Samuel Hays III, conducted a "seminar for the policy community" in November 2008.

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"Robots like GROVER will give us a new tool for glaciology studies, " said Lora Koenig, a glaciologist at Goddard and science advisor on the project.

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