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Traffic-jam buster

and travels at 60 kilometres an hour but takes up no space on the road? Step forward the 鈥渟traddling bus鈥� (see model above), which aims to solve China鈥檚 urban congestion problems by carrying passengers in cabins 2 metres above the road, letting cars pass underneath. Beijing-based company Transit Explore Bus plans to test a full-size model in July or August.

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to be replaced by robots at a Foxconn factory in Kunshun, China, according to local authorities. Foxconn supplies electronics to Samsung and Apple

Robots in disguise

Serena Booth and her colleagues at Harvard University tested the idea by placing a wheeled robot outside different student residences. When it asked to be let in a pass-protected door, only 17 per cent of people did so when approached on their own. But this rose to 76 per cent when the robot was disguised as a cookie-delivery bot from a made-up outfit called RobotGrub. Only one person out of 108 asked to see an access card.