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SoftBank’s human-like robot named ‘Pepper’ poses for pictures in its role as a PR manager of Tottori prefecture at the prefecture speciality store in Tokyo, Japan, July 1, 2015. Pepper will work at the store until July 2, as the first workplace venue for its temporary staffing service. REUTERS/Yuya Shino

New Social Robot Learns Moving in Crowded Places

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Sep 12, 2017 | Technology

San Francisco, London- A team of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) developed a new programmed robot that respects social manners regulating pedestrians’ movements. The new robot will overtake on the left or right, allowing people to...

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Somali Al-Shabaab Militants Kill Six Civilians on the Kenyan Border

by Khalid Mahmoud | Oct 7, 2016 | World

Militants belonging to the Somali Al-Shabaab movement attacked a residential compound in the north-eastern Kenyan town of Mandera that is less than a kilometre away from the Somali border. Six people were killed in the attack which is the latest in a series carried...

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Opinion: The Brotherhood-like Group Behind the Failed Coup

by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | Jul 21, 2016 | Opinion

Those who rushed to analyse and take positions on the coup in Turkey have another chance to re-evaluate the situation. Neither the army as an institution nor the secular opposition was responsible for the attempted coup. Rather, the attempted coup was undertaken by...