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Added on the 01/07/2022 18:31:33 - Copyright : Euronews EN
As Olympic athletes were beginning their second official competition day in the 2018 Pyeongchang Games on Sunday, Korean humanoid robot skiers were still warming up at Welli Hill Park ski resort in Dunnae for a different competition - a slalom tournament. On the sidelines of the main human Olympics, the Korean government has organised Ski Robot Challenge, the world's first ever ski tournament for self-operational humanoid robots. The robots are to battle it out in the slalom discipline on Monday.
Intempéries : Nîmes sous le déluge
Chinese smartphone maker Vivo presented the official FIFA 2018 World Cup smartphone in Moscow on Thursday. The new Vivo V7 and V7+ phones will be available for purchase starting December 16th. Both phones will offer a 24 MP front camera and a 16 MP rear camera, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 450 processor and 4 GB of RAM, but the V7+ will have 64 GB of internal memory while the V7 will only have 32. The V7+ will cost about $420 while the V7 will retail for about $370.
Footage released over the weekend shows thousands of starfish washed up on a beach on the Russian island of Sakhalin near the village of Starodubskoe after a storm shook the area on Thursday night. According to scientists from the Sakhalin Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography, the incident is nothing unusual and similar beachings have have happened before afrer heavy storms, but worried locals aren't convinced and have called for an investigation, raising environmental concerns.
Meet Qoobo, a fluffy, faceless robotic pet that might actually be the prrr-fect pillow. Created by Japanese designer Naoka Takaoka and unveiled in Tokyo on Monday by Naoka and Yukai Engineering, the pillow has a cute robotic tail which wags back and forth after being stroked. Qoobo comes with all the cuteness of cat but without the trouble.
This leafy lapacho tree, which is growing through the stands of Paraguayan football stadium, has become an official member of Resistencia, a football club based in Asuncion. The club threw a ceremony in the stadium in order to officially honor the tree with its own club membership card and club shirt. The Lapacho, also know as a pink trumpet tree, grew in the stands behind one of the goals and Resistencia's club president decided it was time to honour the tree just as the club turns 100 years old.