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Is the world ready for Tesla's new domestic robots?
Talking Points The debut of Elon Musk's long-promised "Optimus" at a Tesla event last week has renewed debate over the role — and feasibility — of commercial automatons
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Self-service tills: the backlash begins
Talking Point Booths, the supermarket chain known as the 'Northern Waitrose', has decided to reintroduce humans to the checkout process
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First crocodile virgin birth recorded
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Growing number of people ‘actually aliens’
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The rise and regulation of killer police robots
Speed Read 'When you have a hammer, everything looks more like a nail'
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Are killer robots now legal in San Francisco?
feature Officials vote to allow police to use remote-controlled devices with lethal capability in ‘extraordinary circumstances’
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San Francisco approves police request to deploy lethal robots
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San Francisco police are controversially asking permission to use killer robots on civilians
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How To Murder Your Husband author sentenced for murdering husband
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Elon Musk says Tesla's humanoid robot prototype will be ready by 2022
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Eager punters offer to bankroll sex robot production
feature And other stories from the stranger side of life
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The Week Unwrapped: Snake robots, farm protests and pet food
podcast What can we learn from the skin of sidewinders? Why are farmers descending on Delhi? And would your cat eat lab-grown mouse protein?
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The Week Unwrapped: Parks, mindful robots and selfish vaccines
podcast Will offices give way to green spaces? Are robots on the verge of mastering empathy? And what’s gone wrong with the EU’s vaccine plan?
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‘Squid teeth’ could be used by US army for ‘self-repairing’ robots
Speed Read Military scientists hope cephalopods could also be the secret to building ‘self-fixing’ uniforms
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