Acknowledgments

We are greatly indebted to Valerie Cannon who played the role of “on location” robo-journalist and photographer for us at the 2015 DARPA Robotics Search and Rescue Challenge at the Fairplex in Pomona, California.

We would like to thank our two interviewees for our “Bron’s Believe It or Not” interviews. We also thank Ken Burns from Tiny Circuits of Akron, Ohio, who provided us with a personal tour of his Arduino manufacturing space and endured our probing interview questions. Portions of the material on Arduino robotics hardware, especially the Phantom X Pincher Robot Arm, would not have been possible without the time and interview given to us from Kyle Granat at Trossen Robotics.

We are also indebted to the NEOACM CSI-Clue robotics ...

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