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A person with a keyboard looks at a screen with CCTV footage

Search engine for CCTV lets you find people from their description

28 October 2018

Trawling through surveillance video for a suspect or missing person is slow work, but a new system can automatically match footage of people to their descriptions
A self-driving boat

NATO's huge military exercise will test robots and autonomous vehicles

25 October 2018

In NATO's biggest military exercise since the Cold War it will use self-driving vehicles, robots that fetch gear, and a 3D printer for printing spare parts

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