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Peccioli municipal police, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, the
operators in the control station Silvia Fornai and Marco
Toncelli, and RoboTech Srl and Dedalus, the tow spin-off
companies of SSSA that optimized and adapted the hardware and software components of the DustBot system for
the test. Finally, a special thanks to all the citizens of Peccioli
who supported and participated in the project.
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