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Spring graduation ceremonies in Japan have been canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic, but students at one school were able to attend remotely by controlling avatar robots while logged on at home.

The robots, dubbed "Newme" by developer ANA Holdings, were dressed in graduation caps and gowns for the ceremony at the Business Breakthrough University in Tokyo.

Postgraduate student Christos Antoniou (l) and PhD candidate Giorgos Zogopoulos (r) hold a drone in a laboratory at the National Technical University of Athens.

The Greek delegation comprised of 10 teams at  2019 World Robot Olympiad (WRO), held in Gyor, Hungary (November 8-10) returned to Greece last week with four medals - three silver, one bronze - and three distinctions (fourth, seventh and ninth). 

Russian police will work with robots from 2030 onwards. The pilot version of the electronic policeman was presented at the Interpolitex exhibition, according to BGNES, Nova TV reported.

Robots and artificial intelligence have long been considered a substitute for humans, carrying out various activities around the world.

Two high-heeled dancer robots, equipped with a CCTV camera on their heads, make their debut at the SC-Club in the French city of Nantes to mark its fifth anniversary next week.

Billed as "one of the most exciting artists of our time," Ai-Da differs from generations of past masters in one inescapable way: she is a robot.

A student works on her display as a fellow pupil looks on at the Panhellenic Educational Robotics Competition in the indoor sports arena of Galatsi, in Athens, on Saturday.

Two Greek teams reached fourth place in the 2018 World Robot Olympiad, which took place in Thailand from November 16 to 18. The 'Rest in PC's' team (l) came fourth in the Open Senior category with its hydroponic cultivation unit, while the 'Autonomous Robotic Aquaponics' team also came fourth in the Open Junior category.

AFP - Robots will handle 52 percent of current work tasks by 2025, almost twice as many as now, a World Economic Forum (WEF) study said Monday.

The sharp increase could also see a net gain in "new roles" for humans, who will have to revamp skills to keep pace with the "seismic shift" in how we work with machines and computer programmes, the forum estimated.

Artificial intelligence, robotics and new technology are bringing sweeping change to the world and according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), one in two jobs is likely to be significantly affected by automation in the next decade.