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Mark Waldbaum (C) of Team Tartan Rescue CHIMP (CMU Highly Intelligent Mobile Platform) robot from Carnegie Mellon University has its tracks changed in the team garage during the finals of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Robotic Challenge in Pomona, California June 6, 2015. Twenty-four teams are competing to win a portion of a $3.5 million prize by operating humanoid robots across a task and obstacle course. REUTERS/Patrick T. Fallon - GF10000119295

CHIMP (CMU Highly Intelligent Mobile Platform) robot from Carnegie Mellon University Image: REUTERS/Patrick T. Fallon

Farnam Jahanian

President, Carnegie Mellon University

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SOURCE: National Science Foundation, National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, Higher Education Research and Development Survey.

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Source: Science, 23 May 2014: Vol. 344, Issue 6186, pp. 843-851, DOI: 10.1126/science.1251868

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