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Robots now see the world with an ease that once belonged only to science fiction. They can recognise objects, navigate ...

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A plague that swept through Eurasia for 2,000 years – millennia before the Black Death of the Middle Ages – has only ever ...

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Machine touted as first tiny robot to be able to sense, think and act, envisioning a future of use inside human body.

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