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Tandy's claims of his early work are difficult to substantiate because they pre-date the
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Microsoft Robotics Group. I did some of the editing for Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio on Knowledge but I am not an experienced Knowledge author. (Just look at how many edits it takes me to get
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