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KTM is kitting out a new motorcycle for the 2025 model year with six clever radar-guided safety features – including the ability to automatically squeeze the brakes to prevent a collision. That's thanks to next-gen rider assistance tech from Bosch.

Most home robots aren’t particularly customizable. Now robotics startup Ohbot has unveiled its newest creation Picoh, a blank slate of a robot that can be programmed to do basically whatever you want it to do.

Anki’s new home robot, named Vector, is part pet and part digital assistant, but just how good is he at those jobs? After a few weeks of having a pet robot living in the kitchen, we’ve come to enjoy his company – but not for the reasons we expected.

Robotics company Anki has unveiled Vector, an emotive little fella who’s basically a cross between a smart home assistant and a pet. New Atlas got a hands-on demo, and found Vector to be a versatile home robot that’s a real charmer and might actually chip in around the house.

​British online supermarket Ocado has already made huge strides to automate its operations. Now it's looking to give its human maintenance technicians a helping hand with the SecondHands project, and has just unveiled its first robot assistant test prototype named ARMAR-6.​

Digital assistants seem to be the Next Big Thing at the moment, but they appear to be mainly stuck in the audio realm. Daptly would prefer things to be a bit more visual, so it's introducing the Daptly Display – a gesture-controlled interactive assistant and display screen.

​Yesterday, Adobe released a 30-second teaser video that asks, "What if you had an intelligent assistant for photo editing?" The company is looking into the possibility of a voice-activated virtual assistant that edits and shares your photos. Think Siri, but for Photoshop.

​With a Google Home speaker, users can ask questions of the all-knowing search engine or direct music and video to connected devices with their voice. Now Sony has announced that some of its speakers and TVs will be able to join that network, allowing them to play media and be controlled via speech.

Doctors and nurses in Japan may soon have some robotic company when making their rounds. That's because researchers at Toyohashi University of Technology are developing an omnidirectional robot named Terapio, that's designed to take the place of a traditional medical cart.