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Apple may put FaceTime on your TV, robo-cars begin delivering pizzas

In today's top stories, Apple reportedly is making an Apple TV with a camera, Domino's Pizza begins using Nuro R2 self-driving robots for pizza delivery, and Android's Digital Wellbeing alerts users to look up when walking.

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Watch the newest box-stacking robot from Boston Dynamics at work

Stretch is a box-stacking, pallet-moving robot from the company that created the world's most famous robotic dog, Spot.

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<p>Optimus Prime comes to life in collectable robot from Robosen and Hasbro.</p>

Transformers come to life: This $700 Optimus Prime does everything, including transform, by itself

It's what you always wished for in a Transformers toy.

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<p>Here are our picks for the best robot vacuums in 2019.</p>

Best robot vacuum for 2021

We rigorously lab-tested many leading robot vacuum models from iRobot, Electrolux, Eufy, Ecovacs, Neato and other brands. Here are our favorites.

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Visa dips into crypto, Boston Dynamics shows off new bot

In today's top tech stories, Visa works with Cypto.com to test using USD Coin cryptocurrency for payment settlements. Meanwhile, Boston Dynamics shows off a new warehouse robot named Stretch, and Sony to close the online store for older PlayStation consoles.

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<p>Stretch unloads a Spot robot dog in a Boston Dynamics video showing prototypes of the warehouse box-moving machines.</p>

Boston Dynamics shows off Stretch the tentacled warehouse robot

Meet Spot's cousin. It's not shaped like a dog, but it has a very capable, extra-long arm with a "smart gripper."

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A robot just sold its NFT artwork for almost $700,000

NFT art is so hot now, even robots are trying to cash in. "As one creates a piece of art, a mysterious, enigmatic, and magical event occurs," Sophia the robot-artist says.

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<p>Even the most accomplished human origami expert can't fold a bird this small.</p>

See the world's smallest origami bird fold itself into nanoscale art

The miniscule bird is a triumph for nanotech.

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9 great reads from CNET this week

We explain what NFTs are and how they might soon be a part of your online experience. Plus: Getting a COVID-19 vaccine, wearing Microsoft's HoloLens 2 and riding a Harley e-bike.

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How Fukushima's underground ice wall struggles to keep nuclear radiation at bay

The ice wall is one way of keeping the massive amount of toxic water stored in the facility. But Japan has floated the idea of dumping it into the Pacific Ocean.

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How VR brought me inside a scary-real radioactive Fukushima reactor

Here’s what it’s like inside the melted-down reactors of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.

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A rare look at the meltdown inside Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant

The cleanup will take decades in places humans can't go. Robots will instead.

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