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U.S. President Barack Obama holds up a t-shirt given to him by Mechanical Engineering Professor Alex Slocum (L) as Susan Hockfield, President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), takes him on
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Undergraduate students from MIT's Department of Mechanical Engineering compete in the annual 2.007, "Star Wars" themed, robot competition at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., May 11, 2017. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
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