Photos: 'Mobots' race for accuracy

This is the Mike-and-Jeff team, a pair of Carnegie Mellon staff engineers, walking back from the first of three trials. In two cases, the speedy robot managed to slalom through all 14 gates, even setting a new course record of 50.71 seconds. On the third try -- perhaps after its creators tried to dial up the speed to break their own record -- it went off the course at gate eight.

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