She used her speech to implore the music industry to do more to protect young women from misogyny and online abuse.
.Today the G1 is being controlled remotely by Pedro Zheng, the Unitree sales manager.
He explains that customers must program each G1 for autonomous functions.Passers-by stop and actively try to engage with the G1, which cannot be said for a lot of the other machines being shown off in the cavernous conference room.They reach out to shake its hand, make sudden movements to see if it will respond, they laugh when G1 waves or bends backwards, they apologise if they bump into it. There's something about its human shape that, uncanny as it is, sets people at ease.
Unitree is just one of dozens of companies around the world developing robots that have a human form.The potential is huge - for business it promises a workforce that doesn't need holidays or pay rises.
It could also be the ultimate domestic appliance. After all, who wouldn't want a machine that could do the laundry and stack the dishwasher.
But the technology is still some way off. While robotic arms and mobile robots have been common in factories and warehouses for decades, conditions in those workplaces can be controlled and workers can be kept safe.Spring is almost over and provisional records show it has been the sunniest spring on record in Northern Ireland.
The number of hours of sunshine, averaged across Northern Ireland from the start of spring up to 21 May was 570 hours, surpassing.
County Down recorded the most sunshine, so far, with 612.1 hours.It was the