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Why Use Tweezers To Play Operation When A Robot Will Do?
If you've never mastered the game of Operation, maybe a robot could help. A Johns Hopkins roboticist shows how it's done in a video that contrasts very high- and very low-tech approaches.
If you've never mastered the game of Operation, maybe a robot could help. A Johns Hopkins roboticist shows how it's done in a video that contrasts very high- and very low-tech approaches.
Study of how brain corrects perceptual errors has implications for brain injuries, robotics 
New research provides the first evidence that sensory recalibration — the brain's automatic correcting of errors in our sensory or perceptual systems — can occur instantly.
New research provides the first evidence that sensory recalibration — the brain's automatic correcting of errors in our sensory or perceptual systems — can occur instantly.
Neuroscience
Source: University of California - Los Angeles
Posted on: Wednesday, Mar 23, 2011, 10:45am
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Source: University of California - Los Angeles
Posted on: Wednesday, Mar 23, 2011, 10:45am
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For robust robots, let them be babies first
Want to build a really tough robot? Forget about Terminator. Instead, watch a tadpole turn into a frog.
Want to build a really tough robot? Forget about Terminator. Instead, watch a tadpole turn into a frog.
Robotics
Source: University of Vermont
Posted on: Friday, Jan 21, 2011, 8:06am
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Source: University of Vermont
Posted on: Friday, Jan 21, 2011, 8:06am
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Video: Robotic ghost knifefish is born
Researchers at Northwestern University have created a robotic fish that can move from swimming forward and backward to swimming vertically almost instantaneously by using a sophisticated, ribbon-like fin.
Researchers at Northwestern University have created a robotic fish that can move from swimming forward and backward to swimming vertically almost instantaneously by using a sophisticated, ribbon-like fin.
Robotics
Source: Northwestern University
Posted on: Wednesday, Jan 19, 2011, 2:22pm
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Source: Northwestern University
Posted on: Wednesday, Jan 19, 2011, 2:22pm
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Researchers uncover behavioral process anticipating the results of rapid eye movements
A team of researchers has demonstrated that the brain predicts consequences of our eye movements on what we see next. The findings, which appear in the journal Nature Neuroscience, have implications for understanding human attention and applications to robotics.
A team of researchers has demonstrated that the brain predicts consequences of our eye movements on what we see next. The findings, which appear in the journal Nature Neuroscience, have implications for understanding human attention and applications to robotics.
Neuroscience
Source: New York University
Posted on: Monday, Jan 10, 2011, 1:41pm
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Source: New York University
Posted on: Monday, Jan 10, 2011, 1:41pm
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Child-mother interactions help design robots with social skills
To help unravel the mysteries of human cognitive development and reach new the frontiers in robotics, University of Miami (UM) developmental psychologists and computer scientists from the University of California in San Diego (UC San Diego) are studying infant-mother interactions and working to implement their findings in a baby robot capable of learning social skills.
To help unravel the mysteries of human cognitive development and reach new the frontiers in robotics, University of Miami (UM) developmental psychologists and computer scientists from the University of California in San Diego (UC San Diego) are studying infant-mother interactions and working to implement their findings in a baby robot capable of learning social skills.
Psychology
Source: University of Miami
Posted on: Friday, Oct 29, 2010, 10:33am
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Source: University of Miami
Posted on: Friday, Oct 29, 2010, 10:33am
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Robotic gripper runs on coffee ... and balloons
The human hand is an amazing machine that can pick up, move and place objects easily, but for a robot, this "gripping" mechanism is a vexing challenge. Opting for simple elegance, researchers have bypassed traditional designs based around the human hand and fingers, and created a versatile gripper using everyday ground coffee and a latex party balloon.
The human hand is an amazing machine that can pick up, move and place objects easily, but for a robot, this "gripping" mechanism is a vexing challenge. Opting for simple elegance, researchers have bypassed traditional designs based around the human hand and fingers, and created a versatile gripper using everyday ground coffee and a latex party balloon.
Robotics
Source: Cornell University
Posted on: Monday, Oct 25, 2010, 7:04pm
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Source: Cornell University
Posted on: Monday, Oct 25, 2010, 7:04pm
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Video: Computational model of swimming fish could inspire new robotics designs
Scientists at the University of Maryland and Tulane University have developed a computational model of a swimming fish that is the first to address the interaction of both internal and external forces on locomotion
Scientists at the University of Maryland and Tulane University have developed a computational model of a swimming fish that is the first to address the interaction of both internal and external forces on locomotion
Robotics
Source: University of Maryland
Posted on: Tuesday, Oct 19, 2010, 11:14am
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Source: University of Maryland
Posted on: Tuesday, Oct 19, 2010, 11:14am
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Exoskeleton helps the paralysed walk again
Amanda Boxtel, a wheelchair user, is about to stand up. A skiing accident 18 years ago partially severed her spinal cord leaving her paralysed from the waist down. She slowly pushes herself out of the chair with crutches, teeters backward for a second, then leans forward – and takes a step. Soon she is walking around the warehouse in Berkeley, California, under her own direction.
Amanda Boxtel, a wheelchair user, is about to stand up. A skiing accident 18 years ago partially severed her spinal cord leaving her paralysed from the waist down. She slowly pushes herself out of the chair with crutches, teeters backward for a second, then leans forward – and takes a step. Soon she is walking around the warehouse in Berkeley, California, under her own direction.
Robotics
Source: New Scientist
Posted on: Thursday, Oct 07, 2010, 6:06pm
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Source: New Scientist
Posted on: Thursday, Oct 07, 2010, 6:06pm
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Robotic arm's big flaw: Patients say it's 'too easy'
One touch directs a robotic arm to grab objects in a new computer program designed to give people in wheelchairs more independence.
One touch directs a robotic arm to grab objects in a new computer program designed to give people in wheelchairs more independence.
Robotics
Source: University of Central Florida
Posted on: Friday, Sep 24, 2010, 10:40am
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Source: University of Central Florida
Posted on: Friday, Sep 24, 2010, 10:40am
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Dancing robot swan triggers emotions
The Dying Swan is sometimes moving smoothly and gently, sometimes in a dramatic and fiery manner, as Tchaikovsky´s majestic music from the ballet Swan Lake is playing. Yet this is no ordinary ballet dancer, but a robot in the form of a swan, created at Mälardalen University and choreographed by professional dancer Åsa Unander-Scharin.
The Dying Swan is sometimes moving smoothly and gently, sometimes in a dramatic and fiery manner, as Tchaikovsky´s majestic music from the ballet Swan Lake is playing. Yet this is no ordinary ballet dancer, but a robot in the form of a swan, created at Mälardalen University and choreographed by professional dancer Åsa Unander-Scharin.
Robotics
Source: Swedish Research Council
Posted on: Tuesday, Sep 21, 2010, 12:57pm
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Source: Swedish Research Council
Posted on: Tuesday, Sep 21, 2010, 12:57pm
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Tiny MAVs may someday explore and detect environmental hazards
Air Force Office of Scientific Research-sponsored researcher, Dr. Robert Wood of Harvard University is leading the way in what could become the next phase of high-performance micro air vehicles for the Air Force.
Air Force Office of Scientific Research-sponsored researcher, Dr. Robert Wood of Harvard University is leading the way in what could become the next phase of high-performance micro air vehicles for the Air Force.
Robotics
Source: Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Posted on: Wednesday, Sep 15, 2010, 2:31pm
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Source: Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Posted on: Wednesday, Sep 15, 2010, 2:31pm
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Researchers give robots the capability for deceptive behavior
A robot deceives an enemy soldier by creating a false trail and hiding so that it will not be caught. While this sounds like a scene from one of the Terminator movies, it's actually the scenario of an experiment conducted by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology as part of what is believed to be the first detailed examination of robot deception.
A robot deceives an enemy soldier by creating a false trail and hiding so that it will not be caught. While this sounds like a scene from one of the Terminator movies, it's actually the scenario of an experiment conducted by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology as part of what is believed to be the first detailed examination of robot deception.
Robotics
Source: Georgia Institute of Technology Research News
Posted on: Thursday, Sep 09, 2010, 1:18pm
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Source: Georgia Institute of Technology Research News
Posted on: Thursday, Sep 09, 2010, 1:18pm
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Video: Secrets of the gecko foot help robot climb
A Stanford mechanical engineer is using the biology of a gecko's sticky foot to create a robot that climbs. In the same way the small reptile can scale a wall of slick glass, the Stickybot can climb smooth surfaces with feet modeled on the intricate design of gecko toes.
A Stanford mechanical engineer is using the biology of a gecko's sticky foot to create a robot that climbs. In the same way the small reptile can scale a wall of slick glass, the Stickybot can climb smooth surfaces with feet modeled on the intricate design of gecko toes.
Robotics
Source: Stanford University
Posted on: Thursday, Aug 26, 2010, 11:50am
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Source: Stanford University
Posted on: Thursday, Aug 26, 2010, 11:50am
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Prosthesis with information at its fingertips
The pain of losing a body part is twofold, as the patients not only suffer from wound pain. Often they are also affected by so called phantom pain. Unlike bodily wounds which will eventually heal, phantom pain often lasts for years and sometimes a lifetime.
The pain of losing a body part is twofold, as the patients not only suffer from wound pain. Often they are also affected by so called phantom pain. Unlike bodily wounds which will eventually heal, phantom pain often lasts for years and sometimes a lifetime.
Robotics
Source: Friedrich-Schiller-Universit�t Jena
Posted on: Friday, Aug 06, 2010, 2:26pm
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Source: Friedrich-Schiller-Universit�t Jena
Posted on: Friday, Aug 06, 2010, 2:26pm
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Robot climbs walls
Wielding two claws, a motor and a tail that swings like a grandfather clock's pendulum, a small robot named ROCR ("rocker") scrambles up a carpeted, 8-foot wall in just over 15 seconds – the first such robot designed to climb efficiently and move like human rock climbers or apes swinging through trees.
Wielding two claws, a motor and a tail that swings like a grandfather clock's pendulum, a small robot named ROCR ("rocker") scrambles up a carpeted, 8-foot wall in just over 15 seconds – the first such robot designed to climb efficiently and move like human rock climbers or apes swinging through trees.
Robotics
Source: University of Utah
Posted on: Thursday, Aug 05, 2010, 11:17am
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Source: University of Utah
Posted on: Thursday, Aug 05, 2010, 11:17am
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Thermal-powered, insect-like robot crawls into microrobot contenders' ring
Robotic cars attracted attention last decade with a 100-mile driverless race across the desert competing for a $1 million prize put up by the U.S. government.
Robotic cars attracted attention last decade with a 100-mile driverless race across the desert competing for a $1 million prize put up by the U.S. government.
Robotics
Source: University of Washington
Posted on: Friday, Jul 02, 2010, 11:19am
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Source: University of Washington
Posted on: Friday, Jul 02, 2010, 11:19am
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Introducing Robofish: Leading the crowd in studying group dynamics
UK scientists have created the first convincing robotic fish that shoals will accept as one of their own. The innovation opens up new possibilities for studying fish behaviour and group dynamics, which provides useful information to support freshwater and marine environmental management, to predict fish migration routes and assess the likely impact of human intervention on fish populations.
UK scientists have created the first convincing robotic fish that shoals will accept as one of their own. The innovation opens up new possibilities for studying fish behaviour and group dynamics, which provides useful information to support freshwater and marine environmental management, to predict fish migration routes and assess the likely impact of human intervention on fish populations.
Robotics
Source: University of Leeds
Posted on: Monday, Jun 28, 2010, 2:10pm
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Source: University of Leeds
Posted on: Monday, Jun 28, 2010, 2:10pm
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Video: Scientists design 3-D simulation robots to compete in the Robocup 2010
A University of Miami (UM) researcher will be presenting his work on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) at the 14th annual RoboCup World Championship and Symposium, an international robotic event whose goal is to advance AI and intelligent robotics research.
A University of Miami (UM) researcher will be presenting his work on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) at the 14th annual RoboCup World Championship and Symposium, an international robotic event whose goal is to advance AI and intelligent robotics research.
Robotics
Source: University of Miami
Posted on: Friday, Jun 18, 2010, 11:46am
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Source: University of Miami
Posted on: Friday, Jun 18, 2010, 11:46am
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Video: Robots big and small showcase their skills at NIST Alaskan events
Make room, Bender, Rosie and R2D2! Your newest mechanical colleagues are a few steps closer to reality, thanks to lessons learned during two robotics events hosted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) at the recent IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) in Anchorage, Alaska.
Make room, Bender, Rosie and R2D2! Your newest mechanical colleagues are a few steps closer to reality, thanks to lessons learned during two robotics events hosted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) at the recent IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) in Anchorage, Alaska.
Robotics
Source: National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Posted on: Friday, May 28, 2010, 9:49am
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Source: National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Posted on: Friday, May 28, 2010, 9:49am
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Advances made in walking, running robots
Researchers at Oregon State University have made an important fundamental advance in robotics, in work that should lead toward robots that not only can walk and run effectively, but use little energy in the process.
Researchers at Oregon State University have made an important fundamental advance in robotics, in work that should lead toward robots that not only can walk and run effectively, but use little energy in the process.
Robotics
Source: Oregon State University
Posted on: Thursday, May 27, 2010, 7:03am
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Source: Oregon State University
Posted on: Thursday, May 27, 2010, 7:03am
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Cockroaches offer inspiration for running robots
The sight of a cockroach scurrying for cover may be nauseating, but the insect is also a biological and engineering marvel, and is providing researchers at Oregon State University with what they call "bioinspiration" in a quest to build the world's first legged robot that is capable of running effortlessly over rough terrain.
The sight of a cockroach scurrying for cover may be nauseating, but the insect is also a biological and engineering marvel, and is providing researchers at Oregon State University with what they call "bioinspiration" in a quest to build the world's first legged robot that is capable of running effortlessly over rough terrain.
Robotics
Source: Oregon State University
Posted on: Wednesday, Dec 30, 2009, 1:39pm
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Source: Oregon State University
Posted on: Wednesday, Dec 30, 2009, 1:39pm
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Household robots do not protect users' security and privacy, researchers say
People are increasingly using household robots for chores, communication, entertainment and companionship. But safety and privacy risks of information-gathering objects that move around our homes are not yet adequately addressed, according to a new University of Washington study.
People are increasingly using household robots for chores, communication, entertainment and companionship. But safety and privacy risks of information-gathering objects that move around our homes are not yet adequately addressed, according to a new University of Washington study.
Robotics
Source: University of Washington
Posted on: Friday, Oct 09, 2009, 7:30am
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Source: University of Washington
Posted on: Friday, Oct 09, 2009, 7:30am
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Robotics insights through flies' eyes
Common and clumsy-looking, the blow fly is a true artist of flight. Suddenly changing direction, standing still in the air, spinning lightning-fast around its own axis, and making precise, pinpoint landings – all these maneuvers are simply a matter of course. Extremely quick eyesight helps to keep it from losing orientation as it races to and fro.
Common and clumsy-looking, the blow fly is a true artist of flight. Suddenly changing direction, standing still in the air, spinning lightning-fast around its own axis, and making precise, pinpoint landings – all these maneuvers are simply a matter of course. Extremely quick eyesight helps to keep it from losing orientation as it races to and fro.
Robotics
Source: Technische Universitaet Muenchen
Posted on: Friday, Jul 31, 2009, 10:26am
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Source: Technische Universitaet Muenchen
Posted on: Friday, Jul 31, 2009, 10:26am
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Want responsible robotics? Start with responsible humans
When the legendary science fiction writer Isaac Asimov penned the "Three Laws of Responsible Robotics," he forever changed the way humans think about artificial intelligence, and inspired generations of engineers to take up robotics.
When the legendary science fiction writer Isaac Asimov penned the "Three Laws of Responsible Robotics," he forever changed the way humans think about artificial intelligence, and inspired generations of engineers to take up robotics.
Robotics
Source: Ohio State University
Posted on: Thursday, Jul 30, 2009, 8:14am
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Source: Ohio State University
Posted on: Thursday, Jul 30, 2009, 8:14am
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Robot learns to smile and frown
A hyper-realistic Einstein robot at the University of California, San Diego has learned to smile and make facial expressions through a process of self-guided learning. The UC San Diego researchers used machine learning to "empower" their robot to learn to make realistic facial expressions.
A hyper-realistic Einstein robot at the University of California, San Diego has learned to smile and make facial expressions through a process of self-guided learning. The UC San Diego researchers used machine learning to "empower" their robot to learn to make realistic facial expressions.
Robotics
Source: University of California - San Diego
Posted on: Wednesday, Jul 08, 2009, 7:50pm
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Source: University of California - San Diego
Posted on: Wednesday, Jul 08, 2009, 7:50pm
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Robot locates shrapnel within flesh and guides a needle to its exact location
Bioengineers at Duke University have developed a laboratory robot that can successfully locate tiny pieces of metal within flesh and guide a needle to its exact location -– all without the need for human assistance.
Bioengineers at Duke University have developed a laboratory robot that can successfully locate tiny pieces of metal within flesh and guide a needle to its exact location -– all without the need for human assistance.
Robotics
Source: Duke University
Posted on: Thursday, Jun 18, 2009, 1:05pm
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Source: Duke University
Posted on: Thursday, Jun 18, 2009, 1:05pm
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Ethical Guide for Robot Warriors in the Works
A software package aims to guide robots to make ethical decisions in war.
A software package aims to guide robots to make ethical decisions in war.
Robotics
Source: Discovery Channel
Posted on: Monday, May 18, 2009, 3:27pm
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Source: Discovery Channel
Posted on: Monday, May 18, 2009, 3:27pm
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Low Cost, Dexterous Robotic Hand Operated by Compressed Air
The Robotics and Mechanisms Laboratory (RoMeLa) of the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech has developed a unique robotic hand that can firmly hold objects as heavy as a can of food or as delicate as a raw egg, while dexterous enough to gesture for sign language.
The Robotics and Mechanisms Laboratory (RoMeLa) of the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech has developed a unique robotic hand that can firmly hold objects as heavy as a can of food or as delicate as a raw egg, while dexterous enough to gesture for sign language.
Robotics
Source: Newswise
Posted on: Monday, May 04, 2009, 4:35pm
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Source: Newswise
Posted on: Monday, May 04, 2009, 4:35pm
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Robot scientist becomes first machine to discover new scientific knowledge
Scientists funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) have created a Robot Scientist which the researchers believe is the first machine to have independently discovered new scientific knowledge.
Scientists funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) have created a Robot Scientist which the researchers believe is the first machine to have independently discovered new scientific knowledge.
Robotics
Source: Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
Posted on: Thursday, Apr 02, 2009, 3:54pm
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Source: Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
Posted on: Thursday, Apr 02, 2009, 3:54pm
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