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Letter from the Director
The $10 Robots: Irresistible and Affordable
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03.06.13

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Newsletter Subtitle
Letter from the Director, Paul K. Wright
Dear Friends of CITRIS, 

 

Paul Wright, CITRIS Director

Austerity. Budget cuts. Limits. Fiscal cliffs. Nobody likes these things. And yet, if necessity is the mother of invention, then austerity is sometimes the parent of innovation. The two stories profiled in this issue of The CITRIS Signal demonstrate the great progress that can be made when limits are reached but progress must still be made.

 

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Competition delivers designs to energize robotics education in developing countries.  

 

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Berkeley Team Recruits the Wisdom of Crowds and Macro-Models to Soften Bay Area Traffic Crunch 

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