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These robots have nailed bottle-flipping, proving not even internet challenges are safe from automation

Remember the bottle flip challenge? This robots have nailed it.
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These robots have nailed bottle-flipping, proving not even internet challenges are safe from automation
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In this year's RoboCon in Japan, teams of high school students built a bunch of bottle-flipping robots that can nail the internet challenge better than most of us.

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