Are you angry about the noise of your alarm clock every morning? Still feel sleepy after getting up? Now, you can say goodbye to that annoying alarm clock, and you needn’t hear its unpleasant noise every morning.

The Glo Pillow(发光枕头) can wake you up with soft LED lights. They produce the soft light over 40 minutes just like the sunrise.

The pillow is taking the place of the traditional alarm clock. It was designed by Eoin McNally and Ian Walton to be against the pressure of a “24 hour” lifestyle.

The pillow uses a kind of LED material below the surface. It wakes the user up with light. The material can also show the time on the pillow’s surface, and it is perfect for those who sleep with their heads completely buried face down into the pillow. Forty minutes before the pre-set(预设) alarm time, the pillow begins to glow and gently brings the user out of sleep. The natural waking process helps to set “body clock” and makes people build a healthy sleep-and-wake habit slowly.

In some science-fictions, we can see non-driver buses on the road. In the past, we could hardly imagine to take this kind of bus to go everywhere. But we did make that come true on December 2,2017.

【小题1】 The name of the non-driver buses is Alphaba. They have been put into use in Guangdong province. The most attractive news about Alphaba is that its driving system is developed independently by Chinese designs and engineers.

【小题2】 The bus can go to different directions exactly with the help of GPS. The GPS on the bus is connected with the traffic-control center. 【小题3】 They help the bus to deal with complex(复杂的) road conditions. Alphaba can judge(判断) rapidly if it needs to stop when there are traffic lights or any dangers 100 meters ahead of it. It will park itself in the right place at the station.

【小题4】 They find no driver and the steering wheel (方向盘) turning slowly itself. It's amazing! Besides, the bus provides the most comfortable seats and the best service the passengers. 【小题5】

Next time, when you travel to Guangdong, why not consider trying the non-driver buses?

In the videos posted, we can see the robot preparing dishes on its own, from cutting vegetables to breaking eggs. It’s also good at watering plants, petting cats, cleaning the floor and washing clothes, even shaking the pillow (枕头).

Sounds good? Well, another video posted by researchers may disappoint some people. Mobile Aloha isn’t good at doing housework on its own.

Instead, it learns from human actions before doing each kind of housework. When the situation changes, it can’t work well without a human “teaching” it. So, it may break dishes, bump into things and even burn a pot.

The robot can successfully move chairs 80 percent of the time, said the team after they did more research on it. For cooking dishes, it’s only 40 percent. In short, it’s far from perfect.

In fact, AI robots are good at tasks such as math and playing chess, but they face challenges when it comes to simpler actions like cleaning. And it’s the same for Mobile Aloha. For example, if its body doesn’t move correctly even just with a small deviation (偏差), its arm may move too far to pick up a glass.

“Robots are not ready to take over the world,” the team posted online.

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