This, from Next Draft, reminds me that I should start collecting stories where the United States could learn a lot from supposedly backwards countries. Is S***hole countries too inflammatory a tag?

"Indian law says no one should have to travel more than 2 kilometers (about 1.25 miles) to vote. So poll workers have fanned out across the country, setting up polling stations wherever there's even a tiny settlement. They trek through the jungle to bring voting machines to a man who lives alone in a lion-infested forest in the western state of Gujarat, and climb to nearly 15,000 feet above sea level to set up a polling station for 12 residents of a village in the northern province of Leh." The polls have opened in the world's largest democracy. (And they'll stay open over the next five weeks.)

The photo accompanying this Tweet shows a robot similar to the ones now being used by Giant. But the article also alludes to two new types of robots—the Auto-C, for cleaning floors, and the Pickup Tower, for dispensing online orders.