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Fancy a self-cleaning house? Let a high-end robot step in

Giving time-poor Australians back hours in their day, robot vacuums, window cleaners, lawn mowers and pool cleaners are laying the foundation for self-maintaining homes.

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"A human defeated two of the three robots he faced in a cage fight recently held in San Francisco," reports the Los Angeles Times, noting that videos of the event drew more than 10 million views on…

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