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"  Homestead\u2014Miami Speedway\u2014Using an HRP-2 robot, Japan&amp;#039;s team Schaft has taken a commanding lead in DARPA&amp;#039;s robot Olympics. Seventeen teams from five countries are competing against one another for U.S. government funding and a slot in the DARPA Robotics Competition Finals next year. In these trials a team can win a total of 32 points in eight physical tests. Tokyo&amp;#039;s Schaft has 18 points. Team MIT is in second place with 12 points; they are using a Boston Dynamics Atlas robot. The competition aims to develop robots that could one day come to the aid of humans in crisis situations. The winning team, which won&amp;#039;t be decided until the DRC Finals in 2014, will win $2 million. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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