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May 2018
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9 Highly Specific Robots You Need to Mee...

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From the robot who desperately wants to feed you tomatoes to the one that likes to hitch rides on turtles, Will and Mango explore the strange, hilarious world of robots (including at least two of them that might want to eat you.) 
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