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Good morning and welcome to the future 👋

It’s not the prettiest of figures, but one of today’s featured robots, which can run, fly, walk a slackline, and even ride a skateboard brings the age of fully autonomous robots a giant step closer.

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🤖 Walking flying robot drone: I must admit, I find this robot pretty ugly. On the other hand, it is another significant step towards having real autonomous robots one day. It can walk and fly, and cope with seriously tricky terrain. Dive Deeper →

👮 Policing by robot: Singapore is well known for its very strict social behavior laws. So it’s probably no surprise that a police robot patrol is seeking out ’anti-social-behavior’. Dive Deeper →

📒 Promotion ideas: Promoting a startup, especially an early startup, is challenging. You may find this list of free ‘promote your next startup’ web resources useful. Dive Deeper →

🔮 Reading the room: Technology being developed by MIT researchers could, in the future, enable inconspicuous room surveillance by analyzing the shadows on the walls. Dive Deeper →

😱 Oh no, Elon: Tesla has postponed the rollout of its latest Full Self-Driving software due to ‘last-minute concerns’. The company hasn’t revealed the nature of those concerns. Dive Deeper →