Ahead of the fast-approaching EU elections, the commission chief, Ursula von der Leyen, has warned that right-wing parties are threatening to destroy 'everything we have built together.' And there was the usual bad apple, touted as being at the center of this mischief making... Russia! German member of the European parliament, Gunnar Beck, says the EU Commission chief is trying to divert attention from her own failures. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Freedom over censorship, truth over narrative. Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RTnews Follow us on Telegram: https://t.me/rtnews Follow us on X: https://twitter.com/RT_com

The leader of the French Patriots political party, Florian Phillipot, told RT that President Macron is using the Ukraine conflict to distract from issues on the home front. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Freedom over censorship, truth over narrative. Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RTnews Follow us on Telegram: https://t.me/rtnews Follow us on X: https://twitter.com/RT_com

Archaeologists discovered nine Roman and Visigoth tombs during construction works and renovations on Via Laietana, Barcelona. The crew at the dig site carefully excavated the remains and made sketches of the findings. One of the team members said ‘it is very rewarding to find these remains and relate them to other discoveries,’ adding that ‘solving these puzzles is very important.’ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Freedom over censorship, truth over narrative. Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RTnews Follow us on Telegram: https://t.me/rtnews Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RT_com

We’ve seen plenty of adorable robot dogs in the past few years, even some with adorable weapons of mass destruction on their backs that can adorably murder hundreds of people in a single bark, but this adorable robot dog has a twist. No, it’s not because it looks like a cross between a dog skeleton and madman’s Meccano set, but because this one can keep on running even if its motors aren’t. Canadian robotics wiz Mickaël Achkar, a student at Switzerland's EPFL research institute, built the experimental dogbot using canine biology as a template. The robot’s 3D-printed polymer joints and steel tendons are mechanically coordinated as they would be in a real life biological good boy, and this gives the robot a simultaneously obvious yet unexpected emergent property: it doesn’t always need to use its motors to move. While testing the robot on a motorized treadmill, Achkar discovered that once it was running at full speed, it didn’t need any power to keep running. The articulated legs simply kept moving, powered only by the movement of the treadmill. This new design of robot could allow for vastly simplified control systems and much lighter mechanical components, which could drastically reduce the cost and complexity of new robots, or even robotic limb replacements. Plus the ping pong ball feet are just adorable. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Freedom over censorship, truth over narrative. Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RTnews Follow us on Telegram: https://t.me/rtnews Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RT_com