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Mar 2018
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Flippy the Burger Flipping Robot

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Rich DeMuro eats a hamburger grilled up by a robot named Flippy, now cooking at a chain called Caliburger in Pasadena, California. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at... 
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