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Introducing the Revolutionary Wheeled Humanoid by Reflex Robotics: Your Personal Snack Getter!

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Agility’s Digit wasn’t the only humanoid holding court at Modex in Atlanta this week. On the opposite end of the Georgia World Congress Center, Reflex Robotics, a younger and smaller startup, was drawing its own crowd. Passersby requested something from the Reflex robot, and it spring into action, grabbing the item off the shelf (it didn’t hurt that the company was giving out free food and beverage). The system has a wheeled base, which is perfectly effective for navigating these kinds of layouts. He adds that the current timeline involves having 10 to 20 Reflex robots in the world, followed by “hundreds” next year.

“New Accusations of Privacy Coercion Emerge Against Meta’s EU Data Collection Scheme”

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As we’ve reported before Meta’s self-serving ‘consent or cough up’ offer is already facing a number of other GDPR complaints. Today’s complaints are not the first filed against Meta’s consent or pay tactic by consumer protection groups — some of which argue it’s breaching the bloc’s rules on consumer protection, too. However its blog post defending the controversial tactic does not make any mention of how it complies with EU consumer protection law. So another very pertinent question, vis-a-vis Meta’s consent or pay offer in the EU, is what the Commission will do? *The BEUC members filing GDPR complaints against Meta are: CECU, dTest, EKPIZO, Forbrugerrådet Tænk, Forbrukerrådet, Poprad, Spoločnosť ochrany spotrebiteľov (S.O.S.