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Endeavour crew set to lift off, assemble robot

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  • Space shuttle crew will take off in early morning hours Tuesday
  • Main job will be to assemble Dextre -- a $200 million "monstrous" robot
  • Robot will rise "almost like it's Frankenstein's monster coming alive"
  • Dextre will eventually take over astronauts' dangerous outdoor work
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