Oliver Conway

It's been a difficult weekend for mountain rescue teams in the Alps, with six people killed in a series of avalanches following heavy snowfall.

Many more had to be rescued.

French weather forecasters had warned of a high risk of avalanches and advised skiers and snowboarders not to go off-piste.

More details from Stephanie Prentice.

I try to stick to the slopes and do a little off-piste skiing, but always in a controlled manner.

I never ski alone.

We assess the conditions and the risk of avalanches.

When we want to venture off-piste, we bring safety equipment and detectors, and we don't just go anywhere.

This means that when people fall, they fall onto rocks next to the slopes, which often results in serious injuries.

This is particularly noticeable at the moment.

If you hate tidying up and ironing, you may soon be able to offload those mundane tasks to an Android.

With the rise of AI, companies around the world are racing to ship robots to our homes to help with daily chores.

But how soon could this become a truly useful reality?

Our correspondent Joe Tidy has been to meet some of the high-tech helpers.

It's impossible not to smile when a humanoid robot walks into a room.

Neo is five foot six and walks and moves very slowly.

It has two button eyes set into a face and body coated in soft knitwear.

It looks cute and cuddly, and that's the point.

This is one of a new wave of domestic bots designed to live with us and help us run our homes.

We've just walked up to see NEO in action and someone is operating NEO right now and watering all the plants.