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Over the weekend we mentioned the adorable Tweenbots project briefly, but those little guys really deserve their own post. A little background: NYU student Kacie Kinzer built the not-so-high-tech bots to see if they could make it from one side of Washington Square Park to the other, with the help of New Yorkers. She explains: "Tweenbots are human-dependent robots that navigate the city with the help of pedestrians they encounter. Rolling at a constant speed, in a straight line, Tweenbots have a destination displayed on a flag, and rely on people they meet to read this flag and to aim them in the right direction to reach their goal."

Brooklyn's beloved smarties have been enjoying the spotlight lately, probably for the first time in their lives. The Daily News now checks in with the self-dubbed Nerd Herd, a group of friends at St. Edmund's Elementary School, as they embark on their journey to Georgia for the Robotic World Festival. After the kids won their spot at the fest, they feared they would be low on funds for the trip, but British vacuum inventor James Dyson chipped in with the rest of the money. The paper also notes that the school has now raised $11,000 on top of what they needed! Yesterday at their send-off celebration, 300 fellow students (including the cheerleading squad!) cheered the Nerd Herd on, chanted their name, and doled out endless high fives. 1/5 of the herd, Simon Shkreli, declared, "I'm so pumped up. Look at this—it's amazing."

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