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A custom-built, state-of-the-art robot nicknamed the "Pyramid Rover," equipped with fiber-optic lenses, high-resolution cameras, and what developers believe is the world's smallest ground-penetrating radar, approaches a limestone block in the shaft of the queen's chamber in the Great Pyramid.

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