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[00:03:37] Panda, nice to meet you, this is a companion
[00:03:40] robot created by a Chinese technology
[00:03:44] company. Our goal is to apply live
[00:03:47] interaction technology in companion robots so that they better
[00:03:51] understand human intentions. No less important is
[00:03:54] what is often forgotten in the field of AI today,
[00:03:57] which is the expression of emotions.
[00:04:00] The traditional Narva Opera Days will be held
[00:04:03] for the tenth time. We will ask the
[00:04:06] artistic director of this festival, Yulia
[00:04:10] Savitskaya, what will happen.
[00:04:14] The tigress Umit takes her first steps in the wild in
[00:04:17] the Ile-Balkhash Nature Reserve in Kazakhstan.
[00:04:21] A historic day, we are starting to implement
[00:04:24] the project of reintroduction of the Turanian
[00:04:27] Tiger. Preparation took a long time -
[00:04:30] 10
[00:04:31] years.
[00:04:38] In China, as in Europe, there is also abnormal heat, but
[00:04:41] there they fight it with the help of new technologies,
[00:04:45] what the Chinese came up with this time, about this in the next
[00:04:48] story.
[00:04:53] Eastern China was covered by abnormal heat,
[00:04:56] the air temperature exceeded 40°.
[00:05:00] In these conditions, city services came to the aid of
[00:05:03] street sweepers, who gave them special vests with
[00:05:06] air conditioning. Two silent fans are built into the bright
[00:05:10] equipment, powered by an ordinary
[00:05:14] battery. They provide constant air circulation and
[00:05:17] accelerate sweat evaporation, helping to endure long shifts
[00:05:21] under the scorching sun. One battery charge
[00:05:25] is enough for 3-4 hours of continuous
[00:05:27] operation, and during the lunch break, the vests
[00:05:31] are sent for centralized recharging for the second half
[00:05:34] of the day. Hi, I'm Panda, a cute
[00:05:38] three-year-old robot Panda, nice to meet you.
[00:05:43] Avkhanch Zhou presented the world's first
[00:05:46] companion robot with artificial emotional
[00:05:49] intelligence. The device, nicknamed Panda, was created for
[00:05:53] children and is designed to become a true friend for them. The robot
[00:05:56] not only looks like a cute panda, but also maintains
[00:06:00] a body temperature close to human.
[00:06:03] Our goal is to apply live interaction technology
[00:06:07] in companion robots so that they better understand human
[00:06:10] intentions. No less important is what is often forgotten today in
[00:06:14] the field of AI, which is the expression of emotions,
[00:06:17] for example, the ability to convey feelings with the right look or
[00:06:20] movement. The combination of these functions we call
[00:06:24] embodied live interaction.
[00:06:27] The robot can recognize a child's mood, helps form
[00:06:30] good habits and teaches English in a playful
[00:06:34] format.
[00:06:36] And in China's Guangdong province, an important step has been taken in the development
[00:06:40] of high technologies. In Shunde district, the country's first
[00:06:44] state agency for the development of smart robots was created, this special
[00:06:47] bureau will manage the creation of machines with artificial intelligence
[00:06:51] that can work in the real world, in factories, on streets
[00:06:54] and in everyday life. Shunde is the largest
[00:06:58] robotics center in China, where more than a hundred
[00:07:02] enterprises operate, and factory workshops, smart homes and urban
[00:07:05] services serve as an ideal platform for testing new
[00:07:09] humanoid assistants.
[00:07:12] In Nanjing, culinary
[00:07:15] technologies have gone even further, a fully automated
[00:07:18] restaurant has opened there, where robots
[00:07:22] work instead of chefs, smart devices
[00:07:24] independently fry dishes and cook noodles, using
[00:07:28] artificial intelligence algorithms for precise control of temperature,
[00:07:32] spices and cooking time.
[00:07:35] Our equipment allows us to serve more than 2,000
[00:07:39] people per shift. The menu features over
[00:07:42] 40 dishes. Our database contains more than
[00:07:46] 3,000 recipes from all eight main cuisines
[00:07:50] of China. This means that we can update
[00:07:53] the menu every day for a whole month and never
[00:07:56] repeat ourselves.
[00:08:00] Meanwhile, in Hong Kong, the world's first
[00:08:04] tests of a fully self-driving car were held
[00:08:07] in left-hand traffic conditions. Baidu's autonomous
[00:08:10] taxi successfully drove along the specified
[00:08:14] route on the territory of the local airport, making all
[00:08:17] planned stops, the test drive went flawlessly,
[00:08:21] despite the torrential
[00:08:22] rain.
[00:08:30] Narva Opera Days celebrate
[00:08:33] their 10th anniversary, we will talk about this event today with the artistic
[00:08:36] director of this event, Yulia Savitskaya is in our studio. Good evening,
[00:08:40] thank you for coming. Hello. 10
[00:08:43] years ago, for some this may be a long time, for others it is just
[00:08:46] the beginning, how do you feel, are you at the beginning of the journey or
[00:08:50] do you already have a lot of experience, a lot of
[00:08:53] history, well, it depends on what you compare it to, yes, because 10
[00:08:57] years, yes, it's a long, long period, a lot
[00:09:00] has been done, a lot has been learned, and for me
[00:09:04] the most important thing is that experience has appeared, uh-huh, it's also very
[00:09:08] important that we have our own audience, people who
[00:09:12] are waiting... for the festival, who come every year and
[00:09:15] somehow pass on information to their friends and acquaintances, yes, this is the so-called
[00:09:19] word of mouth, which, I think, works in any country,
[00:09:22] in Estonia it works very well, our festival has become
[00:09:26] quite popular, and I like
[00:09:29] that at the beginning there was a plan that we would only present
[00:09:33] contemporary music, contemporary opera, contemporary ballet, that is, music
[00:09:37] that composers are writing now, but
[00:09:40] unfortunately I realized that the audience
[00:09:44] is not ready for this, because people who,
[00:09:47] well, not everyone has been to the opera house, right, not everyone has been to the ballet, and the audience
[00:09:51] is a little scared to come to the opera for the first time,
[00:09:54] especially since it's unfamiliar, right, surely many
[00:09:57] people know such operas as Carmen or, I don't know,
[00:10:01] Swan Lake ballet, but very few people
[00:10:04] know that there is an opera like Philip Glass's opera this year,
[00:10:07] Einstein on the Beach, so
[00:10:11] the audience is afraid and...
[00:10:25] some famous ballet, that is, we have not only opera, we also have ballet, maybe we have
[00:10:28] operetta, and some concerts, and I
[00:10:32] always try, if not a world premiere, then
[00:10:35] something modern, closer to modernity, some new production,
[00:10:39] uh-huh, so it's like a
[00:10:42] hamburger, right, there's a headliner, and there's something
[00:10:46] hidden so that people can taste and discover something
[00:10:49] new for themselves, you already said that you have your own
[00:10:53] audience, so did you immediately conceive of this festival
[00:10:57] for guests of Narva or did you initially expect
[00:11:00] the Narva audience, who is your audience? Well, Narva is
[00:11:04] a small city, I naturally understood that we cannot
[00:11:08] fill large halls only with the Narva audience, of course, I
[00:11:11] assumed and we plan that some guests will come from Estonia
[00:11:15] and other cities, as well as guests from other countries, and
[00:11:19] also people who live in Narva, and guests for
[00:11:22] Narva from abroad, from other countries, from... cities, I think, are very
[00:11:26] important, because this is also a financial profit for the city, and
[00:11:29] tourists, all this is interconnected and helps other businesses that
[00:11:33] are related to serving tourists, I think that this is
[00:11:37] very useful and yes, it was planned that way from the beginning, well
[00:11:40] the Kreenholm Manufactory, how difficult is it to organize a
[00:11:44] festival there, especially an opera festival, opera days?
[00:11:47] Well, it's not difficult, people go there, I think most people who are not
[00:11:51] from Narva, although maybe people from Narva also come to see exactly...
[00:11:55] how to say it, what seems unsuitable at first, that is,
[00:11:59] Kreenholm is a post-industrial space,
[00:12:02] classical music, opera, it doesn't fit, but very often what doesn't
[00:12:05] fit, it already forms some
[00:12:09] kind of artistic
[00:12:11] work, Kreenholm, opera, and many people come not just
[00:12:15] for the opera, not just for Kreenholm, but to see the opera in Kreenholm, because
[00:12:18] there is excellent acoustics, amazing acoustics,
[00:12:22] if we do it outside, then minimal
[00:12:25] amplification, and did you discover this already during
[00:12:29] the organization of the festival, or did you plan
[00:12:32] this in advance and specially organized the
[00:12:35] opera days precisely in the Kreenholm Manufactory because
[00:12:38] of its acoustics? No, it's not like that, but
[00:12:42] whenever you're a musician, one way or another,
[00:12:45] you come into a space, you check it, you feel
[00:12:49] the acoustics, you sing a little, great, so
[00:12:52] it wasn't, you check for obstacles? Or what to
[00:12:56] do there at all, in Kreenholm there are, of course, inside there are such halls that have
[00:12:59] a very large echo, but also this echo can
[00:13:02] be regulated, hang fabrics, do something so that yes, and
[00:13:06] for some music styles, for example, for ancient music, musicians
[00:13:09] came to us, they said: great, like playing in a church, that is, it can also be such a versatile
[00:13:13] space, tell us about this year's
[00:13:16] program, what's the lineup?
[00:13:19] August 14, August 14 we will have
[00:13:23] an opera gala concert.
[00:13:29] where ERSO, the Estonian Symphony Orchestra, will also take part, I don't know exactly
[00:13:32] how its name will sound correctly in Russian,
[00:13:35] there will be world-class soloists, I think that those who
[00:13:39] are interested should go to our
[00:13:42] Facebook page, there is a lot of information there, so I advise you to go to Facebook and see which
[00:13:46] soloists, this is Alexander Antonenko, who
[00:13:49] sang at the Metropolitan Opera, he suddenly comes to us, this is a great
[00:13:53] honor for us, also a soloist
[00:13:55] from Sweden will come and a soloist from
[00:13:59] Ukraine and of course Kari Strauss, this is our Estonian singer, will also take part
[00:14:03] in the gala concert. On August
[00:14:06] 15, the opera Einstein on
[00:14:09] the Beach will be performed, now I want to definitely go back to it, I
[00:14:13] will just say that we will have such a preliminary event that is not part of the festival
[00:14:16] program, on August 13 there will be such
[00:14:20] a tango evening, that is, an evening of tango music and dances, this is not
[00:14:23] an... but it is very worth visiting, the Odessa
[00:14:27] Opera House from Odessa is coming, they
[00:14:30] will be ballet dancers, they will dance
[00:14:34] tango, and the Odessa
[00:14:37] Camarata ensemble will accompany all
[00:14:40] this, I think it will be very beautiful and enchanting, that is,
[00:14:44] the weather is still warm now, inside, by the way, even if it rains, people don't
[00:14:47] need to worry, this year everything is under a roof, we will also make sure that
[00:14:51] people can see everything well and it's warm and...
[00:14:55] there will also be a restaurant, everything will be wonderful, well, if we go back
[00:14:59] to the 15th, Philip Glass's opera is
[00:15:03] conceived without an intermission, the opera lasts 4.5
[00:15:06] hours, but this does not mean that a person will come and sit
[00:15:09] there all this time, we made such a format that people can
[00:15:13] come and go from the hall, that is, a person sat,
[00:15:16] went to the restaurant, bought
[00:15:19] a drink, something to eat and returned, even during the opera, it's during
[00:15:23] the opera, but of course, yes, but of course. So that it wouldn't be like throwing a
[00:15:27] chair on the floor, quietly leaving, buying
[00:15:30] a drink, eating, you can walk around
[00:15:33] outside, on the territory of Krymholm, we have such acoustics that everything will be...
[00:16:37] and don't miss this event, well, now about
[00:16:40] animals, who and how protects the tiger population,
[00:16:44] about this in the next
[00:16:44] selection.
[00:16:50] A female Amur tiger named Umit took the first step towards a new
[00:16:54] life. In the Ile-Balkhash Nature Reserve in Kazakhstan, the
[00:16:57] predator was released into the wild as part of a program
[00:17:00] to restore the tiger population. A historic
[00:17:03] day, we actually begin
[00:17:06] today
[00:17:08] to implement the project
[00:17:11] of reintroducing the Turanian tiger. Preparations
[00:17:15] took a long time, 10 years.
[00:17:17] Caspian tigers once lived in vast territories of Central
[00:17:21] Asia, but disappeared in the 20th century due to hunting, habitat
[00:17:25] destruction, and a reduction in their food base. Amur tigers
[00:17:28] are considered close relatives of Caspian tigers, so scientists
[00:17:31] expect that the animals will be able to adapt to new
[00:17:34] conditions. The Tiger Project has
[00:17:38] great significance for restoring the ecosystem.
[00:17:42] As you know, the long
[00:17:45] chain of biodiversity consists of various species of
[00:17:49] plants and animals, the loss of any species can
[00:17:52] lead to irreversible processes. Specialists will
[00:17:55] observe the tigress's behavior in nature before releasing four more
[00:17:59] tigers, establishing a sustainable population can take
[00:18:03] decades.
[00:18:06] At Chester Zoo in Great Britain, a rare
[00:18:09] event occurred. For the first time in almost 95 years of the institution's
[00:18:12] existence, chicks of the Secretary bird appeared
[00:18:14] here. These birds are endangered
[00:18:18] in the wild. There are only
[00:18:21] 79 individuals in various collections across Europe,
[00:18:25] only three chicks hatched this
[00:18:28] year. The chicks were born to the pair John and Jolene. Over the past
[00:18:31] year, they had five chicks. The first two were hand-fed
[00:18:35] by zoo staff, but...
[00:18:41] This is one of two species of birds of prey that hunt on
[00:18:45] the ground, most birds of prey strike their prey
[00:18:48] from flight, and these birds are truly unique,
[00:18:52] just watching them walk on the grass is already
[00:18:55] fantastic. The main weapon of this bird is powerful
[00:18:59] leg strikes, so it can cope even with venomous
[00:19:03] snakes. Despite its formidable appearance, its numbers continue
[00:19:06] to decline. The main reason for the decline in the number
[00:19:10] of Secretary birds is the loss of natural
[00:19:13] habitat due to agriculture and the expansion of
[00:19:16] settlements. Therefore, we are trying to create
[00:19:20] protected areas where they can survive and
[00:19:22] thrive.
[00:19:25] The European heat forces even the largest land animals to seek ways to cool
[00:19:28] down. At the Vienna Zoo, a small elephant calf learns to take
[00:19:32] water procedures with adult members of the herd. In the midst of summer.
[00:19:35] We, of course, help our elephants
[00:19:39] cool down. Every day after lunch, well, or almost
[00:19:43] every day, we give them an outdoor
[00:19:46] shower to help them cope
[00:19:48] with the heat. Elephants also swim in
[00:19:52] the pool on their own, the elephant calf usually follows its favorite aunt, checking how
[00:19:56] deep it can go into the pool. After swimming, it's usually
[00:19:59] time for mud, and then for sand, the ideal
[00:20:03] skincare
[00:20:04] procedure.
[00:20:52] Apparently, we are having
[00:20:54] a mirror-garden victory, the mirror is
[00:20:58] the best thing you could miss, that is, we
[00:21:02] sent a wish to the universe, today at
[00:21:05] 18:00, it should have been made
[00:21:08] wider.
[00:21:15] Since the beginning of the war, every second person has left Kyiv,
[00:21:19] but they remained, Olga, her two
[00:21:22] children and two husbands. I love you so much,
[00:21:25] really.
[00:21:29] Go, drive, faster, come on. Klaus, a German who goes to
[00:21:33] Ukraine to save his girlfriend. And even
[00:21:35] Verka Serduchka. You say you don't have
[00:21:39] a family. But for many, you
[00:21:41] are family. Their stories in the series First
[00:21:45] Days. Today at 21:30 on ETV
[00:21:48] Plus.
[00:22:50] opened borders, I want to know how European countries endured
[00:22:53] these strict restrictions, how
[00:22:56] society is gradually opening up, has the unity of
[00:23:00] Europe been preserved? And I also took on
[00:23:03] the mission of saving Estonia's restaurant and hotel
[00:23:07] business, that is, to attract tourists back to us.
[00:23:10] And I will start, of course, with Finns, we have
[00:23:14] a test.
[00:23:47] Johannes's business trip.
[00:26:34] Now creative incubators and
[00:26:36] artisans work here, in the future a new residential area will be built here. This
[00:26:40] settlement will be special, since the construction and further arrangement
[00:26:44] of life will be based on the noble principles
[00:26:47] of the circular
[00:26:49] economy.
[00:26:52] Recycled materials can be used instead of new
[00:26:56] materials, the production of which requires large amounts of electricity
[00:26:59] and is a source of carbon dioxide emissions.
[00:28:33] This toilet is without flushing. The pipe
[00:28:36] is directly connected to a container in the basement, where this
[00:28:40] fertilizer accumulates.
[00:28:44] But it doesn't go to the wastewater treatment plant, it's
[00:28:47] composted, which in turn is used to fertilize
[00:28:51] local fields and grow food. Closed
[00:28:55] cycle.
[00:28:55] цикл.