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Would you stop and offer HitchBOT a ride? The Canadian hitchhiking robot, who car-hopped all the way from Halifax to Victoria during the summer of 2014, makes for one quirky passenger. This is what it’s like to pick up HitchBOT.

Angst over robot jobs is picking up steam, writes Peter Nowak

I never grasped that we are the flesh-based problem to which they are the solution

French scientists have created the first-ever mechanical mouth that mimics the first steps of digestion, chewing up an apple to create the same mushy pulp a human mouth would. While some artificial mouths already exist—to test soft foods or sets of teeth, for example—this invention is the first to actually recreate what happens when we eat solid food. New Scientist suggests this could be a first step towards “a robotic taste-tester designed to improve food quality and our understanding of flavour.”