Special robots ? a type of tablet on wheels ? will enable sick children to visit a zoo in Poland as part of an initiative by an animal charity. The young patients will be able to steer a robot around the zoological gardens in Pozna?. Thanks to the robots, they will see everything that is going on in the enclosures, and will even be able to visit parts of the zoo not usually available to visitors. www.thefirstnews.com/article/robot-named-bear-takes-sick-children-on-virtual-trip-to-the-zoo-5185
Alphabet's drone delivery company Wing announced it's launching one of the world's first drone delivery services in Canberra, Australia following regulatory approval. Customers place an order for popular items ? like food, coffee and medicine ? through Wing?s app. Minutes later, a drone arrives with the goods at their doorstep. 100 homes have access to start.
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The WasteShark is a 1.5 metre long drone that works like an aquatic vacuum cleaner. It's modelled on the whale shark, which is a filter feeder that sucks prey like plankton into its mouth. As it swims through water, the WasteShark sucks in plastics and other rubbish, eating up to 200 litres of waste in a single trip. The drone is capable of swimming for up to 16 hours and can be controlled manually or set to patrol a defined area. https://watersource.awa.asn.au/technology/innovation/this-waste-eating-shark-drone-is-cleaning-up-waterways/
The European parliament has voted to support plans for the elimination of most uses of single-use plastic, ranging from cutlery and straws to coffee stirrers and plastic plates. It?s a significant step that could encourage other governments around the globe to also commit to reducing the amount of plastics that end up in landfills, waterways, and oceans.
https://futurism.com/the-byte/eu-vote-ban-single-use-plastics
The U.S. military has constructed a massive virtual reality platform to help train infantry soldiers in realistic battlefields filled with millions of artificial intelligence agents. https://futurism.com/army-soldiers-vr-combat-training
