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Gadgets & Gizmos: AI creating books, music and marking exams, Uber for oldies & cyborg bees

Gadgets & Gizmos: AI creating books, music and marking exams, Uber for oldies & cyborg bees

Update: 2025-07-21
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Steve Caplin discusses an app that uses AI to create illustrated books for children, as well as AI being used to mark exams. Uber is making it easier for oldies to use their service, as well as trialling robotaxis in London next year. The Chinese have come up with a self-driving motorbike. The band Velvet Sundown, fantastically popular on Spotify, turn out to be an AI creation. There's an internal music player seeking crowdfunding. Chinese scientists have found a way to create cyborg bees. And John Hopkins University has invented an autonomous robot surgeon to remove gallbladders, though it has so far only operated on dead pigs.

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Gadgets & Gizmos: AI creating books, music and marking exams, Uber for oldies & cyborg bees

Gadgets & Gizmos: AI creating books, music and marking exams, Uber for oldies & cyborg bees

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