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There's an engineer on YouTube building his own room-scale laundry-picking UFO catcher robot out of QR codes and string, it's one of the most compelling robotics demos I've seen in a while. https://t.co/QuASlOi4Eh
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There's an engineer on YouTube building his own room-scale laundry-picking UFO catcher robot out of QR codes and string, it's one of the most compelling robotics demos I've seen in a while. https://t.co/QuASlOi4Eh
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