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Excited to announce a Docker demo for our newly upgraded navigation system. Pull the image, launch the demo, and guide the navigation in goal-point and smart-joystick modes. Supports CV and AI, working on real robots. 20 Unity scenes available!
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CMU Researchers Contribute to NASA’s Autonomous Robot Snake -- to explore moon of Saturn!
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New Robotics Institute Director Ready To Shape Future of Robotics
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Work published in
@ScienceMagazine
Ji Zhang says "Our robots can autonomously explore and map complex environments and build high-fidelity point cloud maps by themselves, in real-time, with no GPS!" Read more...
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Robotics Institute Developing Drones To Fight Wildfires
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Our friend and colleague, Dieter Fox, wants to know "Where's RobotGPT?" If you missed his talk, you can watch it here
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Assistant Professor Deepak Pathak (
@pathak2206
) was named to MIT Technology Review’s list of 35 Innovators Under 35 for his work in self-supervised & adaptive robot learning! Congrats, Deepak! 🏆
Learn more about his work and MIT's prestigious list:
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New
#iros2022
paper!
RCA: Ride Comfort-Aware Visual Navigation via Self-Supervised Learning
Xinjie Yao, Ji Zhang, Jean Oh
Paper:
Video:
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CMU experts in human-robot interaction propose VoicePilot: a framework + design guidelines for incorporating LLMs as speech interfaces for physically assistive robots 🤖🦾
The paper was accepted at
@ACMUIST
- held in Pittsburgh this October!
Read:
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Hebert Named Dean of Carnegie Mellon’s Top-Ranked School of Computer Science
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Why CMU’s School of Computer Science (finally) launched a bachelor of science in robotics via
@Technical_ly
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RoboAgent can efficiently learn skills and generalize them in new places. Read where to download and watch the video featuring
@Vikashplus
@mangahomanga
and
@m0hitsharma
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One week deadline extension (March 27)!!! ICRA 2022 Workshop in Forestry and Robotics … This workshop aims to address recent advances in robotics research and development for forestry applications. May 23 // Philadelphia, PA
#ICRA2022
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Some great CMU representation at
#RSS2024
🤖🚀 Our researchers are constantly driving amazing advancements in the robotics community!
#TartanProud
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Carnegie Mellon University Payloads Iris, MoonArk Launch as Part of Historic Lunar Mission
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IROS 2021 just wrapped up and RI did well!
Best paper on Agri-Robotics
Finalist for best conference and best student paper
Congratulations to the authors!
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CMU researchers have developed a framework called Agile But Safe (ABS). ABS allows quadrupedal robots to move extremely fast while maintaining both safety and efficiency!
Read more at and watch the team’s featured video:
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Congratulations to: Ingrid Navarro, Pablo Ortega-Kral, Jay Patrikar, Haichuan Wang, Zelin Ye, Jong Hoon Park, Jean Oh, and Sebastian Scherer
—for winning Best Student Paper at the 2024
@aiaa
Conference! 👏
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Kshitij Goel Wins 2024 Alan J. Perlis Graduate Student Teaching Award
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The Auton Lab has proposed MOMENT: one of the first families of open-source foundation models for time series analysis!
The models serve as a building block for diverse tasks such as forecasting, classification, & anomaly detection.
Learn more:
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From Howie: Congratulations to our very own Fan, Chao, Hongba, Jean and Ji on their best paper award. Chao and Ji were able to use their experience from SubT for this work, so congratulations to Basti and Matt as well.
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Can a robot help someone get dressed or clean?
New
#iros2022
paper "Visual Haptic Reasoning: Estimating Contact Forces by Observing Deformable Object Interactions" explores this and other questions.
@YufeiWang25
,
@davheld
,
@ZackoryErickson
Read more:
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#IROS2024
Best Paper Award! 🎉💥
Congratulations to lead authors Vihaan Misra and Peter Schaldenbrand and professor Jean Oh for their outstanding work!
Learn about their award-winning project:
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A Day in the Life of a Robotics PhD Student at Carnegie Mellon via
@YouTube
Thanks to Yorai Shaoul of the
@AirLabCMU
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Robotics Institute Ph.D. Students Selected for Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship
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New
#iros2022
paper!
Acoustic Localization and Communication Using a MEMS Microphone for Low-cost and Low-power Bio-inspired Underwater Robots
@AkshayHinduja
, Yunsik Ohm, Jiahe Liao, Carmel Majidi, Michael Kaess
@rpl_cmu
Paper:
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Robotics Institute’s Tabitha Lee receives honorable mention for the NCWIT Collegiate Award
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DeltaZ is part of
#iros2022
!
An Accessible Compliant Delta Robot Manipulator for Research and Education
Sarvesh Patil
@servo97
, Samuel C. Alvares, Pragna Mannam, Oliver Kroemer
@iamlab_cmu
,
@fzeyneptemel
@CMU_ZoomLab
Video:
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We lost a colleague, dedicated member of the RI Community and a friend. Thank you, Alan.
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Amazing.
22 years after driving this road daily to develop and test the world’s first self driving cars at
@CMU_Robotics
, a
@tesla
MS is driving me to CMU to teach a class about that period of time. None of the students in the class were even alive then!
#FullCircle
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Are you thinking about attending grad school in CS or robotics?
We are excited to announce three information sessions where we’ll talk about the Whys, Whats and Hows of grad school.
Check out the website for details:
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Howie Choset named the PIPLA 2023 Inventor of the Year
Congratulations, Howie!
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Congrats to Alvin Shek, Bo Ying Su, Rui Chen and Changliu Liu! Their paper "Learning from Physical Human Feedback: An Object-Centric One-Shot Adaptation Method" received the ICRA Outstanding Interaction Paper award!
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RoboLaunch: A Robotics Outreach Initiative
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Congratulations to our 2023 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Recipients
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Featuring CMU Robotics Institute alum Ben Stevens. Video by Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute.
The Sarcos Robot
Project by:
@CMU_Robotics
We strive to get permission for each peace of content we share, and give credits to the rightful owner. If you feel this is not the case, please send us a DM so we can correct this
#tech
#design
#engineering
#research
#robotics
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Fascinating work in robotics and agriculture coming out of the Robotics Institute! 🌽🤖💡
You can read more about Mark and his team’s project on our news site:
How can we use AI & robotics for agriculture? 🤖🌽
We present Towards Autonomous Crop Monitoring - accepted into 𝐑𝐀𝐋𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟒! Robot inserts sensors in corn stalks to monitor plant nutrients.
See paper, additional documentation at
🧵👇 (1/7)
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Student orientation week comes to a close and high-fives to ALL of our new students! Thanks for being part of today’s challenge!
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A peek inside the MattLab
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Our Robots Wish You a Happy V Day!
Thanks to Changliu Liu and the Intelligent Control Lab for sharing the love...
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RISLab Receives Honorable Mention for IEEE T-RO King-Sun Fu Memorial Best Paper Award
Congratulations to Wennie Tabib, Kshitij Goel, John Yao, Curtis Boirum, and Nathan Michael!
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COVID-19 Should Be Wake-Up Call for Robotics Research
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Ji Zhang has won the
#RSS2024
Test of Time award for his work on LOAM: Lidar Odometry and Mapping in Real-Time! 🏆
Zhang will present a virtual keynote at RSS on July 18th. Read about the 2014 paper that earned the award, + hear Ji talk about this work:
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The RI Summer Scholars showcased their research yesterday with a fantastic turnout! 46 undergrads from 11 different countries participated in the program to develop their academic, professional, and personal pursuits. Learn more about the scholars: 👏⭐📝
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CMU-Led Research Team Selected to Develop Robotics Technology to Service Satellites, Build Structures in Orbit
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Congratulations to the MRSD program on their tenth year!
#MRSD10
Hagen Schempf via satellite!
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Congrats to Yorai Shaoul*, Itamar Mishani*, Maxim Likhachev, and Jiaoyang Li for winning Best Student Paper Award at the
@ICAPSConference
! 🏆🦾⭐
Read the paper + see video of simulated multi-robot arm manipulation:
* = co-lead researchers
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RI researchers have developed Neural Motion Planning for robots. Inspired by how humans gather experiences to practice & increase proficiency, the approach uses a versatile AI network to perform motion planning in household environments. 🤖🏠
Read here:
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Our Alum, Vandi Verma, came to talk about the robots that explore Mars.
Video and abstract here:
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Nominated for
#iros2022
Best Paper and Best Student Paper Awards!
FAR Planner: Fast, Attemptable Route Planner using Dynamic Visibility Update
Fan Yang,
@ChaoCaoCMU
, Hongbiao Zhu, Jean Oh, Ji Zhang
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Henny Answers Robot Questions From Twitter for Wired
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NASA Mission To Test Technology for Satellite Swarms – Carnegie Mellon’s Zac Manchester Leads Three-Satellite Experiment
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CMU Robotics Institute Develops System To Detect and Fix Problems in Gas Pipelines
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Exciting new work
@Wenxuan_Zhou
and
@davheld
features a simple gripper that can solve more complex manipulation tasks if it can utilize the external environment.
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Pretty darn awesome
Pliant Energy’s agile swimming amphibious robot demonstrated at the 2017 Naval Future Force Science and Technolgy Expo in Washington D.C.
#tech
#robotics
#engineering
#future
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Three Robotics Institute Students Awarded National Science Foundation Fellowships
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The Vision-Language-Autonomy Challenge: Happening now! 🧵
(1) The challenge aims to progress computer vision and AI research in real-world systems. Researchers created a navigation autonomy system for the challenge from scratch!
Participants will complete several tasks...
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Congratulations Shumian Xin, Ioannis Gkioulekas, Aswin Sankaranarayanan and Srinivasa Narasimhan and their U. Toronto colleagues for their CVPR Best Paper Award “A theory of Fermat Paths for Non-Line-of-Sight Shape…
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RI researchers partnered with a team from the AI Institute to design a framework that imitates the unique trials and errors of human learning 🧠🧐
#CoRL2024
Read about this groundbreaking work:
Our CoRL 2024 paper shows Reinforcement Learning can allow robots to learn skills via real-world practice, without any demonstrations or simulation engineering. Rewards are provided using language/vision models, and mobility of robots enables autonomous exploration.
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The Robotics Institute’s Ye Won Byun, Tabitha Lee, and Michelle Zhao among the Finalists for the NCWIT Collegiate Award
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Folding clothes and cooking tasks are two tasks where deformable object manipulation is key. Manipulating elastoplastic objects such as dough is particularly challenging.
Read more about this
#iros2022
work from
@carl_qi98
,
@Xingyu2017
,
@davheld
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Agile But Safe (ABS) is getting recognition at
#RSS2024
! Great news from the LeCAR lab 🎉
So excited that ABS is the RSS Outstanding Student Paper Award nominee! Very proud of
@TairanHe99
@ChongZitaZhang
@_wenlixiao
@guanqi_he
Fully open-sourced code:
Also, big congratulations to the winning paper about contact-implicit MPC by
@MichaelAPosa
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Carnegie Mellon Robot, Art Project To Land on Moon in 2021
CMU Becomes Space-Faring University With Payloads Aboard Astrobotic Lander
PITTSBURGH—Carnegie Mellon University is going to the moon, sending a robotic…
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#iros2022
here we come!
Online Kinematic Calibration for Legged Robots
Shuo Yang, Howie Choset, Zachary Manchester
@cmurexlab
Video:
Paper:
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ICRA 2022 Workshop in Forestry and Robotics
This workshop aims to address recent advances in robotics research and development for forestry applications. May 23 // Philadelphia, PA
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Thanks to all of the students in the Spacecraft-Design-Build-Fly class! Video: Build a real cube satellite with Zac Manchester
@zacinaction
and Brandon Lucia
@blucia0a
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Congrats to the team
@YufeiWang2
Zhanyi Sun and
@davheld
behind the
#RSS2023
paper "One Policy to Dress Them All: Learning to Dress People with Diverse Poses and Garments"
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CMU research is flourishing at
#SIGGRAPH2024
! CMU authors collaborated on 12 papers, with two best papers 🏆 & two honorable mentions 🏅 in the SIGGRAPH Technical Papers Awards 👏🧠💥 Congratulations to all for their amazing work!
Find all info here:
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The snakes rock on!
Snake
#robots
might come in handy for surgery, search-and-rescue missions, and even space exploration—but they’re nothing without the slithering serpents that inspire their design. Story via
@novapbs
. Video via
@CMU_Robotics
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Congratulations to Changliu Liu, who received the Young Investigator Award at the 2024 International Symposium on Flexible Automation! 👏🏆
The award honors outstanding young investigators working in the field. Read more about it here ➡️
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An Interview with Chuck Thorpe on CMU: Operating an autonomous vehicle research powerhouse
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CMU’s Iris Rover Secured to Lunar Lander
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Chris Atkeson Critiques Robotics in Movies with Wired
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More fascinating work from CMU accepted to
#CoRL2024
🧠💡⭐️
Check out the team’s project below ⬇️⬇️
Congrats to
@nikos_gkanats
@TWAdaizai
and
@KaterinaFragiad
!!
3D representations are more critical than what we thought for manipulation. Our work 3D Diffuser Actor marries those with policy diffusion and achieves a new SOTA on both RLBench and CALVIN!
🦾
with Tsung-Wei
@TWAdaizai
and Katerina
@KaterinaFragiad
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Fall 2019 CMU Robotics Institute Seminar Series videos will continue to be compiled here
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😎
Uber builds the fake city of Almono to test
#DriverlessCars
, located just outside of Pittsburgh via
@MikeQuindazzi
>>>
#AI
#IoT
#AutonomousVehicles
#AR
#Robotics
#CES2019
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Changliu Liu Receives Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing Champion Award
Congratulations, Changliu!
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Excellent!
Congratulations to Michael Kaess
@CMU_Robotics
, who shares the inaugural
@RoboticsSciSys
Test of Time Award with Frank Dellaert of
@GeorgiaTech
, a Ph.D. alum of SCS.
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Self-driving car company Aurora making Pittsburgh its headquarters
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A huge thanks to Jonathan Hurst - our alum and co-founder of
@agilityrobotics
- for his talk today. If you missed it, watch the video here:
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Traversing intersections is a challenging problem for autonomous vehicles, let alone ones without traffic lights.
New
#iros2022
paper "State Dropout-Based Curriculum Reinforcement Learning for Self-Driving at Unsignalized Intersections" from
@shiveshkhaitan
and John Dolan
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Robotics Institute PhD student, Tess Hellebrekers, work is featured in this article about Carmel Majidi’s Soft Machines Lab
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CMU's Yuichi Hirose, Mark Gillespie, Angelica Bonilla Fominaya, + James McCann present a unique fabrication technique: Solid Knitting
@solidknit
The paper was selected for honorable mention @
#SIGGRAPH2024
+ the work is highlighted on the SIGGRAPH blog!
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Congrats to MSCV student Aviral Agrawal & his team for acceptance into
#CVPR2024
!
"Listen Then See: Video Alignment with Speaker Attention" proposes a new method for Socially Intelligent Question Answering using audio to improve video/text understanding.
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Beautiful man, beautiful story. The Piper let’s everyone know how much Chuck Whittaker means to us.
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Check out Howie Choset's recent co-authored paper: "Geometric phase predicts locomotion performance in undulating living systems across scales", now published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
@PNASNews
!
Read it here:
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TIGRIS: An Informed Sampling-based Algorithm for Informative Path Planning
Brady Moon
@bradygmoon
, Satrajit Chatterjee,
@smash0190
Sebastian Scherer
#iros2022
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“The Secret History of Facial Recognition” in Wired Feb 2020 is a great read and talks about the tech pre and post Kanade
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Congrats Mohit and Oliver of the
@iamlab_cmu
on
#iros2022
paper "Efficiently Learning Manipulations by Selecting Structured Skill Representations"
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CONGRATS to CMU PhD Bailey Miller + his team for winning a Best Student Paper Honorable Mention award at
#CVPR2024
!
Their paper develops a theory for modeling light transport on probabilistic descriptions of solid geometry.
Read about this achievement!
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Go Katia, go!
Our researchers are leading a
@DARPA
project that aims to use machine social intelligence to improve teamwork.
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