There's plenty of competition: VirtualAPT, based in Brooklyn, has robots that glide through homes and provide immersive virtual reality tours; REX, a brokerage in Woodland Hills, Calif., has an AI-trained robot to answer potential buyers' questions at open houses; RealFriend and OjoLabs have AI-powered chatbots that mimic human conversation while providing deeply personalized home listings and buying advice. In Zenny's case, the robot is powered remotely by the real estate broker or property manager who is handling the showing from afar. It is also equipped with sensors to keep it from running into walls or people. In addition to Zenny, Zenplace's platform includes a full suite of rental management solutions, including tenant screening, electronic lockboxes for on-demand property viewings, and a secure online portal for rent payment. The company charges a $599 flat fee for some properties, and $99 a month for others. VirtualAPT's robots, which roll through homes capturing 360-degree videos in 4K resolution, provide ultra-crisp, high-quality images.

There's plenty of competition: VirtualAPT, based in Brooklyn, has robots that glide through homes and provide immersive virtual reality tours; REX, a brokerage in Woodland Hills, Calif., has an AI-trained robot to answer potential buyers' questions at open houses; RealFriend and OjoLabs have AI-powered chatbots that mimic human conversation while providing deeply personalized home listings and buying advice. In Zenny's case, the robot is powered remotely by the real estate broker or property manager who is handling the showing from afar. It is also equipped with sensors to keep it from running into walls or people. In addition to Zenny, Zenplace's platform includes a full suite of rental management solutions, including tenant screening, electronic lockboxes for on-demand property viewings, and a secure online portal for rent payment. The company charges a $599 flat fee for some properties, and $99 a month for others. VirtualAPT's robots, which roll through homes capturing 360-degree videos in 4K resolution, provide ultra-crisp, high-quality images.

Robots can'significantly influence' children's opinions, researchers have found. Experts used a classic psychological test to compare how adults and children respond to an identical task when in the presence of their peers and robots. They showed that while adult's opinions are often influenced by peers, they are easily able to resist being persuaded by robots - with children aged between seven and nine were more likely to give the same responses as the robots, even if they were obviously incorrect. Experts used a classic psychological test to compare how adults and children respond to an identical task when in the presence of their peers and robots. The study, conducted at the University of Plymouth and called titled'Children conform, adults resist', used the Asch paradigm - first developed in the 1950s - which asked people to look at a screen showing four lines and say which two match in length.

Factory robots are not generally considered to be the most exciting bits of technology. But car company Ford is trying to change this by introducing a new robot to one of its European production lines. It can make coffee, give workers fist bumps and even administer a creepy robotic head massage. Factory robots are not generally considered the most exciting bits of technology. But car company Ford is trying to change this by introducing a new robot to one of its European production lines.