During a recent visit to Lourdes, his right Holy one Pope Benedict XVI (guarantee that comes up in a pub quiz soon) has his every move tracked by an unmanned aerial vehicle. It’s certainly the direction we’d expect his protection to be coming from - but perhaps the UAV was in case the big fella upstairs was busy.

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Students from Manchester University have produced this prototype pair of robots for the Ministry of Defence Grand Challenge, a competition set up by the MoD to uncover new talent across the UK for military hardware use.

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