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Georgia Tech has received a $900,000 grant from the Office of Naval Research to develop a robot that can complete missions in dangerous situations by utilizing the remaining debris found around the area. Professor Mike Stilman, team leader of the project, refers the robot as "MacGyver bot."
"Our goal is to develop a robot that behaves like MacGyver, the television character from the 1980s who solved complex problems and escaped dangerous situations by using everyday objects and materials he found at hand," Stilman says.