In Pictures: Attack of the (mostly) cool robots

New robots pick grapes, go after snakes, improve health and measure Antarctic ice

Here French engineer Christophe Millot stands with his Wall-Ye prototype, a robot designed to prune vines, in the Pouilly Fuisse vineyard. The 50 by 60 centimetre robot, with four wheels and two metal arms, has six web cameras and a GPS and can roll between grapevines, test the soil and check the grapes. With a little more training, Wall-Ye will be able to prune up to 600 vines per day, says his inventor, Christophe Millot, who has been working on the project for the past three years.

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