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  1. Chair of Individualized Production (IP), RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

    Sigrid Brell-Cokcan & Hyung Joo Lee

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

    Marcelo H. Ang

  2. Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

    Oussama Khatib

  3. Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy

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  1. Australian Centre for Field Robotics, University of Sydney, Building J04, 2006, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Salah Sukkarieh

  2. Robotic Systems Lab, ETH Zurich, Leonhardstrasse 21, Zurich, Switzerland

    Marco Hutter

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Brell-Cokcan, S., Lee, H.J. (2022). Robotics in Construction. In: Ang, M.H., Khatib, O., Siciliano, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Robotics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41610-1_218-1

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