Inside a robot-run warehouse - BBC Click

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About 20,000 packages an hour are sorted by machine at JD.com's largest robot-run warehouse in Shanghai, China.

The company has three million orders a year ranging from smartphones and televisions to nappies.

BBC Click's Dan Simmons finds out how the company can deliver items within a few hours and sometimes within minutes.

Lara Lewington looks at some of the best of the week's technology news, including the news that the US prepares to relax its regulations on flying drones.

Plus, Microsoft researchers have built a hi-tech mosquito trap to help combat diseases like the Zika virus.

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