Gov­ern­ment is mov­ing clos­er to in­tro­duc­ing a pol­i­cy that will al­low com­mu­ni­ties to ap­ply for ‘gat­ed’ sta­tus as a mea­sure to pro­tect them­selves from crime.

Now, thanks to advances in natural language processing (NLP) and voice control, operators can instruct machines using everyday speech. This shift promises to make robots more accessible to ...