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In a brief 39-second clip shared to X, the driverless car can be seen cruising down a busy London street.

As a child, Natalie Altman would spend an hour before bed touching items around her room that she felt correlated to something bad to keep what felt inevitable at bay.

Across the land, in 23million gardens, hosepipes are lying dry, coiled like sad, dead serpents in the sun. Or are they?

A year after the Daily Mail exposed ministers' secret Afghan immigration scheme, a Parliamentary inquiry has lifted the lid on the chaos behind the scenes and says Afghans are still being betrayed.

Roger Hirst said he was ' very sorry for the damage and hurt I have caused' to the journalist

Redmond now allows only locked-down rigs with joint software and hardware support for its on-prem hyperconverged cloud and Switchzilla won't go there

The presenter broke down in tears as The Script frontman Danny O'Donoghue reflected on his bandmate Mark Sheehan's death.

Victoria Beckham wrapped her toned legs around her husband David as they enjoyed a speedboat ride in Formentera.

Speaking from the Oval Office, Trump said he had spoken to the new Prime Minister and claimed 'people [are] coming from all over the world and just camping out' in the UK.

Gemma Collins has been left 'shattered into a million pieces' after her mum Joan died at the age of 70, with the TOWIE star confirming the news on social media

The mammoth inflatable vessel - likely cobbled together in a backstreet workshop in China - carried a scarcely believable 165 migrants towards Britain's shores.

Polanski sparked fury when he shared an image to Instagram featuring a man wearing a black T-shirt with the message, 'We're only making plans for Nigel' and an image of a guillotine.

The BBC, which spends millions on giant salaries for star presenters most of us haven't heard of, couldn't be bothered, last week, to send a reporter to watch the sentencing of a terrifying killer in court.

A High Court judge in London this week ruled that SConnect, the creators of the hugely popular character Wolfoo, illegally copied audio from Peppa Pig in a 'prolific' and 'long-standing' manner.

Crypto gambler George Cottrell is alleged to have transferred three large sums to his mother Fiona in the days before she gave money to Nigel Farage's Reform UK party.

The advert on the property website caught Lorna Derrett's eye: 'Perfect countryside plot'. It was exactly what she was looking for. Or so she thought.

MPs are preparing to bring the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill back to Parliament after its previous attempt to become law ran out of time in the House of Lords.

The FCC's ban on Chinese-made robots extends well beyond humanoids to quadrupeds, research platforms, and many robot vacuums from allied countries. Supporters call it a major boost for domestic robotics, but critics warn that cutting researchers and startups off from affordable foreign hardware could slow U.S. innovation instead. Ars Technica's Jeremy Hsu examines who stands to gain and who stands to lose from the prohibition: Such an import ban would apply to some of the most affordable robots primarily produced by Chinese companies, including Unitree's humanoid robots that are used by robotics labs and researchers for tasks such as experimental robot surgeries. US consumers would also likely lose access to the newest robot vacuum cleaners that are mainly manufactured by Chinese companies such as Roborock. But the ban also broadly applies to foreign-made robots produced by countries nominally allied to the United States, including Japan, South Korea, and Germany. [...] The ban on foreign-made robots could theoretically encourage more US and foreign companies to set up manufacturing facilities in the United States. There are already multiple companies racing to scale up production of humanoid robots in US factories, including Agility Robotics, 1X Technologies, and Figure AI. Tesla has been attempting to shift production away from older electric vehicle models and toward its Optimus humanoid robot. Boston Dynamics has already been making its Atlas humanoid robot, along with its four-legged Spot robot and wheeled Stretch robot, at its main facility in Waltham, Massachusetts. The US robotics company is also planning to massively scale up manufacturing of the Atlas robot under South Korea's Hyundai Motor Company, which gained full ownership of Boston Dynamics in July 2026. "This is one of the strongest technology-security actions in modern US history," wrote Evan Beard, CEO of Standard Bots, in a LinkedIn post. "The message is unambiguous: robotics is a technology America must lead and own -- and foreign-subsidized robots will not be allowed to unfairly dominate US robotics as they did solar." Similar praise came from Rush Doshi, director of the Initiative on China Strategy at the Council on Foreign Relations, who, in a social media post, described the FCC decision as "one of the most significant actions taken so far in support of the US robotics ecosystem." However, several robotics researchers and analysts interviewed by The Robot Report expressed skepticism about any potential boost to US competitiveness in robotics. Some even warned that the ban could prove counterproductive for US robotics efforts to develop humanoid robots. "In the near term, the measure could slow US physical AI innovation by cutting startups and researchers off from future low-cost Chinese platforms before comparable Western alternatives exist," said Georg Stieler, a global robotics advisor and managing director for Asia at Stieler Technology & Market Advisory, in an interview with The Robot Report. US domestic production of robots lags behind China in terms of mass manufacturing at lower cost, said Rueben Scriven, a senior analyst at Interact Analysis. "This announcement is more likely to inhibit the US humanoid robotics industry, as the presence of low-cost Chinese humanoid robots has been helping educate the US market through promotional and entertainment use cases -- an effect this policy risks undermining," Scriven told The Robot Report. The report notes that previous FCC bans have done little to help create competitive U.S. alternatives, with restrictions on Chinese drones instead prompting companies to sell barely disguised versions of DJI technology.

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