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US Robotics Funding Critical Amid Global Competition: ‘The Race Is On’
Updated Oct. 25 with an analyst quote A decade ago the DARPA Robotics Challenge pumped tens of millions of dollars of investment into American robotics innovation, stimulating development of everything from humanoid robots to self-driving cars. Today overall government investment seems to be slowing, putting U.S. robotics leadership at risk in a world that is…