内容摘要：The bodies of an elderly couple were found in the seaside resort town of Le Lavandou, while another person died after becoming trapped in a car in Vidauban, local authorities reported on Tuesday.

The bodies of an elderly couple were found in the seaside resort town of Le Lavandou, while another person died after becoming trapped in a car in Vidauban, local authorities reported on Tuesday.

"The advantage of the ecosystem right now is this kind of 'small town, everybody knows each other' [feeling]. Scaling that up, there is the risk of actually losing that element of it."It's a bright spring morning in Hanover, Germany, and I'm on my way to meet a robot.

I have been invited to see the G1, a humanoid robot built by Chinese firm, Unitree, at the Hannover Messe, one of the world's largest industrial trade shows.Standing at about 4'3" (130cm), G1 is smaller and more affordable than other humanoid robots on the market, and has such a highly fluid range of motion and dexterity that videos of it performing dance numbers and.

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."So if more charges are put on them it might stop them coming altogether or they maybe won't have the same pennies to spend in the shops."

But others argue passengers only pass through Invergordon on their way to visiting other parts of the Highlands before returning to continue their cruise.Local resident Donald Macdonald says a levy could potentially help the town, if the money was spent in the right way.

"We're not seeing any benefit at the moment," he said."There are a lot of people struggling here. There is no work.