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Gearheads : The Turbulent Rise of Robotic Sports

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In the early nineties, a visionary special-effects guru named Marc Thorpe conjured a field of dreams different from any the world had seen before: It would be framed by unbreakable plastic instead of cornstalks; populated not by ghostly ballplayers but by remote-controlled robots, armed to the steely teeth, fighting in a booby-trapped ring. If you built it, they’d come all right…. In Gearheads, Newsweek technology correspondent Brad Stone examines the history of… More >>

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