"Many parents fear that their language is an obstacle, a problem, and if they abandon it their children will integrate better," says Antonella Sorace of the University of Edinburgh.

In a study published April 2lst in the journal iScience, Italian researchers, Arianna Pipitone and Antonio Chella, designed a robot that "thinks out loud".

By this time, Mark Antony had palled up with Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, and Octavian beat both of them, and he became the sole ruler of the empire in 27 BCE.