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Picking the right robotics challenge

Juxi Leitner recounts how he and his team took part in — and won — the 2017 Amazon Robotics Challenge and reflects on the importance of solving big picture problems in robotics.

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  1. Morrison, D. et al. in IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation 7757–7764 (IEEE, 2018).

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Team ACRV is funded by the Australian Research Council (project number CE14010001).

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Leitner, J. Picking the right robotics challenge. Nat Mach Intell 1, 162 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-019-0031-6

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