The Week Unwrapped podcast: Fruity robots, happiness and dystopian TV

Will fruit-picking robots gain the human touch? Is New Zealand really choosing happiness over wealth? And why is the near future so scary?

Japan's Utsunomiya University demonstrates a robot that picks ripe strawberries during a demonstration at the annual International Robot Exhibition in Tokyo on December 2, 2015. Some 450 comp
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