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Bandit is a socially assistive humanoid robot developed at the University of Southern California’s Robotics and Autonomous Systems Center, with updated design and fabrication performed by BlueSky Robotics. It is used as an expressive human-robot interaction platform, and 6 Bandit robots are currently in use.
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- Los Angeles, United States
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- 2006launch
Launched Bandit
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