The performance of those six auto-bots marks a new height in humanless feats: Though Stanford's autonomous Touareg "Stanley" won a 132-mile unmanned sprint across the Mojave Desert in 2005, that event's bots merely had to stay on the road.

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Back to the shopping bots - and back to the U.S. I try several retailers.

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As well as search and rescue bots, Choset's team have designed small-scale devices for use in human surgery.

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