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Tech Tuesday: Amazon HQ2, social robots

Visitors interact with the mobile, dexterous, social (MDS) robot Octavia at the Office of Naval Research (ONR) exhibit during Fleet Week New York 2010.
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United States Navy

Columbus is still in the running for Amazon's second headquarters, but the ranks could be pared soon. 

 

The city has offered the online retail giant a 15-year property tax abatement and a 15-year, 35 percent income-tax refund on withholdings from new full-time employees at Amazon's headquarters.

 

Today on Tech Tuesday, we consider the chances for Columbus. And we talk about the future of so-called social robots in our homes. 

 

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