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00:00:27mayor of Moscow says 450 drones were
00:00:30were directed at the city since Saturday. Saturday. Princess Diana's brother
00:00:34brother Earl Spencer, has told the the BBC the treatment of the Duke
00:00:36Duke and Duchess of Sussex at the the hands of the media has echoes
00:00:40echoes of what happened to his sister. sister. German Chancellor Friedrich
00:00:44Friedrich Merz faces growing political political pressure as local elections
00:00:47elections take place in two German
00:00:49German states. Opinion polls suggest suggest that the Chancellor's party,
00:00:52party, the CDU, is at risk of damaging
00:00:55damaging defeats, raising questions
00:00:56questions about his future as leader.
00:01:00leader. Ed Sheeran apologises to to fans for what he calls mistakes
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00:01:54It is an experience like no
00:01:56other. It connects you to the universe universe and to our solar system.
00:02:00system. It makes you feel both small
00:02:02small and special at the same time.
00:02:06time. Human versus robot. Bring it
00:02:08it on. Oh! All that steering, all
00:02:14all that manoeuvring, all that braking.
00:02:15braking. It's all been done by computer.
00:02:18computer. Welcome to Formula Student
00:02:21Student AI. The cosmic spectacle
00:02:31spectacle of a solar eclipse. As
00:02:33As the moon passes in front of the
00:02:36the sun and aligns perfectly, casting
00:02:38casting its shadow onto earth, awe
00:02:41awe inspiring as it is to witness. witness. For scientists, eclipses
00:02:45eclipses also offer a unique chance
00:02:47chance to study our star and better
00:02:50better understand its influence on
00:02:52on our planet. But when totality
00:02:55totality lasts, only a fleeting couple
00:02:58couple of minutes. They need something
00:03:01something fast to chase it. That
00:03:05That means flying NASA's WB-57 research
00:03:08research aircraft. And we travelled
00:03:09travelled to Iceland to see preparations
00:03:12preparations for a very special mission.
00:03:14mission. Soon this jet will be taking
00:03:17taking to the skies chasing the moon's
00:03:19moon's shadow as it travels across
00:03:21across Greenland, Iceland and Spain.
00:03:23Spain. It's a rare and extraordinary
00:03:26extraordinary moment to capture images
00:03:28images of the sun's outer atmosphere.
00:03:32atmosphere. Flying at an altitude
00:03:34altitude of 500 zero feet or 16km
00:03:3716km above the earth, the plane hit
00:03:40hit speeds of 460 miles, was 740km/h.
00:03:44740km/h. Once we hit our time and and the eclipse is coming, I'm going
00:03:47going to hit the totality start and and I'm just going to put as much
00:03:50much juice into it as I can. We're We're going to fly as fast as we
00:03:53we can, get as much totality as we
00:03:55we can. Viewed from the ground, totality
00:03:58totality lasts for two minutes and
00:04:00and 18 seconds. But for this Nasa
00:04:02Nasa jet racing through the stratosphere
00:04:05stratosphere that's extended to almost
00:04:08almost three minutes, gaining precious
00:04:10precious extra time for valuable
00:04:13valuable scientific observations. observations. The plane is fitted fitted with a specialist telescope
00:04:17telescope and cameras that can take take 20 to 50 images per second.
00:04:21second. There's six cameras on board, board, and they all take different
00:04:23different wavelengths of light. There There are the visible wavelengths
00:04:27wavelengths of light and also the the infrared. Our plan is to effectively
00:04:30effectively try to race the sun. sun. My job is to track the sun,
00:04:34sun, track the target's frame up
00:04:36up the image set focus set exposures.
00:04:41exposures. Put together those thousands thousands of high resolution pictures,
00:04:45pictures, build up a giant mosaic mosaic of the sun's million degree
00:04:48degree hotter outer layer. The corona.
00:04:50corona. Getting up into the air gives
00:04:52gives us access to unique wavelengths
00:04:55wavelengths or colours of light that that we can't see from the ground
00:04:58ground and that we don't have instrumentation
00:05:00instrumentation for yet in space.
00:05:05space. Using that data, scientists scientists hope to examine a long
00:05:08long standing mystery while the sun's
00:05:10sun's outer atmosphere is far hotter
00:05:13hotter than its surface and also also gain a better understanding
00:05:16understanding of how space weather weather originating from our star
00:05:20star affects us here on earth. It It impacts our planet. It impacts
00:05:23impacts our assets in space, including
00:05:26including human and technology. That
00:05:28That space weather is at once very very interesting but is also a hazard.
00:05:32hazard. And it can even affect us us here on the ground by affecting
00:05:35affecting our power stations, our our GPs reliability to understand
00:05:38understand space weather and to be be able to predict space weather,
00:05:42weather, we have to be able to understand understand the origins of that space
00:05:45space weather. And that means studying
00:05:47studying the solar corona. It's not
00:05:51not just a jet going up in the skies
00:05:55skies in nearby Reykjavik. This Nasa
00:05:57Nasa funded student project is sending
00:06:00sending up 80 weather balloons, one
00:06:01one every hour to examine atmospheric
00:06:05atmospheric changes as our skies skies suddenly darken. Three. Two.
00:06:09Two. One. Each balloon is equipped
00:06:15equipped with a sensor called a. a. Radiosonde that is measuring the the pressure temperature, relative
00:06:19relative humidity. It can also send send us the wind speed information
00:06:21information it's going to go up to to about 30km 35km before it bursts
00:06:25bursts and all that while it's going going to be sending radio signal
00:06:28signal back to the ground stations
00:06:31stations here we're particularly particularly interested in the portion portion of the atmosphere called
00:06:34called the boundary layer. It's where where all the mixing, the exchange
00:06:38exchange of mass, momentum and energy energy occurs. And it's that energy
00:06:41energy part. That's what really changes
00:06:43changes during the eclipse. Back
00:06:46Back at the air base, with the eclipse
00:06:48eclipse fast approaching, NASA's
00:06:50NASA's aviators are ready for take-off.
00:06:52take-off. It's a one of a kind moment
00:06:55moment for all the team, including including the scientists on the ground.
00:06:58ground. It's always an adventure. adventure. It is an experience like
00:07:02like no other. It connects you to
00:07:04to the universe and to our solar
00:07:07solar system, to our star. It makes makes you feel both small and special
00:07:10special at the same time. Across
00:07:17Across Europe, onlookers marvelled marvelled at the eclipse and those
00:07:20those in Spain were treated to the
00:07:22the magic. A full totality. But as
00:07:28as the moon's shadow fell over Iceland,
00:07:31Iceland, we're not as lucky. It's
00:07:34It's obscured by the cloud, but we're
00:07:36we're plunged into darkness. I wish
00:07:39wish we would have seen the corona,
00:07:42corona, but I was actually having having chills in my body. Of course
00:07:44course I wanted to see the total total solar eclipse. You know, from
00:07:48from the sky. Even though we did
00:07:49did not. It was amazing. But high
00:07:54high above the clouds, the Nasa crew
00:07:56crew have the best seat in the house
00:08:00house and this celestial wonder is
00:08:02is getting its close up.
00:08:21If you want to know what the gadgets of the future are going to
00:08:24to look like, well, this is a pretty pretty good place to start. We're
00:08:27We're at IFA in Berlin, one of the the biggest technology trade shows
00:08:30shows in the world. There are almost
00:08:33almost 2000 exhibitors from all over over the world here. Companies that
00:08:37that want to make your home smarter,
00:08:39smarter, your phone sleeker and your
00:08:41your TV screens even bigger. Take
00:08:44Take it down. And one thing loads
00:08:46loads of them have in common is claiming claiming their products are packed
00:08:50packed full of AI. This year that
00:08:53that also means robots. Lots and
00:08:56and lots of robots. Pretty much everywhere everywhere you look. And more of
00:08:59of them are looking, well, more human human like this guy. What else do
00:09:02do you want to know about me? This
00:09:06This is the M1 Zeroth. He's not super
00:09:09super tall, just 15in, but he packs packs in plenty of tech. There's
00:09:12There's camera. Oh. Look, we have have some awesome visitors over there
00:09:16there with a camera. So it can scan
00:09:21scan the house and give you a map
00:09:24map so that it will patrol your house
00:09:26house like. A. Like a security camera.
00:09:29camera. And he's got a friend too
00:09:31too for helping outside. And while
00:09:36while some robots are trying to help help you out around the house or
00:09:39or the garden, there are some here here that are trying to master the
00:09:42the beautiful game. What do you reckon?
00:09:48reckon? This is a showcase for the the international competition for
00:09:52for football playing robots called
00:09:56called RoboCup. The RoboCup is a
00:09:58a really big tournament. So it's
00:10:02it's really complicated. We have have different kind of technologies
00:10:05technologies which we will bring bring together and hope it works
00:10:08works together. A lot of technology, technology, a lot of science, a lot
00:10:11lot of work going into this. But But it's not just so they can play
00:10:14play better football, right? This This software is reliable to do everything
00:10:18everything else. What is needed in
00:10:22in household in industry tasks, in
00:10:24in elderly care, for example. And And to get a closer look, we're going
00:10:28going to do a quick penalty shootout.
00:10:30shootout. Human versus robot. Bring
00:10:33Bring it on. He always got me there.
00:10:43there. Oh, hello. It's not just humanoids.
00:10:46humanoids. Robots come in all shapes
00:10:48shapes and sizes here, including including small and furry. I'm here
00:10:52here to help children learn. This
00:10:54This is Chow Chow. It's an AI powered
00:10:56powered cuddly toy for children. children. It responds to a child's
00:11:00child's touch or tone, then reports reports back to parents on their
00:11:03their emotional well-being. This
00:11:08This is the Ikaros now as well as as being a bit cute. It's an AI assistant
00:11:11assistant that you can wear and helps
00:11:13helps you to remember things in your
00:11:16your life. Wearable AI isn't entirely
00:11:19entirely new, but this one is. And And you can't buy it anywhere yet.
00:11:22yet. So with the pin form you can
00:11:24can just simply wear like this way. way. And here is the microphone.
00:11:28microphone. And also we have a camera camera behind of it. So based on
00:11:31on that when you're wearing it, it it basically can see your surroundings,
00:11:35surroundings, know what you're doing doing and who are you talking with.
00:11:39with. Where is a lot. It will know know your personality. Like you can
00:11:43can ask him some basic questions questions and also the complicated
00:11:46complicated questions. The camera. camera. You can slide it open or
00:11:48or close. Yeah, yeah yeah. Why was was that an important design? We
00:11:52We just noticed lots of people really
00:11:56really concerned about the privacy.
00:11:57privacy. So we want to have a like
00:12:00like just everyone can notice this this basic simple from the product
00:12:04product we care about privacy. Sticking
00:12:07Sticking with the wearable vibe is is plod1. It's a pair of earbuds
00:12:10earbuds Mike and charging deck all
00:12:12all packed with AI to listen in and and analyse the conversations around
00:12:15around you. You can use both the
00:12:18the case or the Airbus to do the the recording for you, but the differences
00:12:21differences is that we have the LTE,
00:12:23LTE, 4G, the built in SIM inside inside it, and we can talk to or
00:12:27or speak to the agent directly. Can Can you show us how this works? Yes.
00:12:31Yes. Press and hold the agent button
00:12:33button here like hey Paul, how's how's the weather in Berlin today?
00:12:37today? Overcast is about 24 degrees degrees right now. Can you show us
00:12:40us how it works on the phone as well? well? Yeah. Of course. So like you,
00:12:44you, you just ask some questions questions through the airport and
00:12:46and through the plot one and you you can go the agent here. Here is
00:12:50is the chat history. That's everything everything we were talking about
00:12:52about before. Yeah. And for the first
00:12:59first time, the Chinese tech giant giant Xiaomi is here at the show. show. Now they're here to talk about
00:13:03about the billions they're planning planning to invest in AI over the
00:13:05the next few years. And their partnership partnership with German carmakers
00:13:09carmakers like this one. The problem problem for these companies, though,
00:13:12though, is that while they're excited excited about AI, we know there are
00:13:15are plenty of people who really aren't.
00:13:18aren't. I think this comes because because there's a lack of understanding
00:13:22understanding how it works, what what it operates, where actually
00:13:25actually the magic is happening and
00:13:28and how we can trust something that that we cannot really see. The challenges
00:13:31challenges will not only be from from a technical side, it will be
00:13:34be about the human security itself. itself. So essentially when we talk
00:13:37talk AI, we talk about security or
00:13:40or privacy. We also talk about human human security, not only the digital
00:13:44digital data. And I think this will will be the next level of consideration
00:13:48consideration where we go more and
00:13:49and more in the age of AI. So what
00:13:54what do you reckon? Are you ready ready for more AI to move into your
00:13:58your home?
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00:15:05Williams as I eat my way around Italy
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00:15:27Parmy no aquaculture accounts
00:15:29for 50% of the seafood we eat. I'm
00:15:32I'm at one of the largest exhibitions exhibitions of marine technology
00:15:35technology supporting the growing growing seafood sector around the
00:15:38the world. From autonomous fishing
00:15:41fishing closures to innovations to to transform waste into energy, new
00:15:45new tech is playing a key role in
00:15:47in helping the industry to improve
00:15:49improve its environmental and welfare
00:15:52welfare practices. This is the kind
00:15:54kind of camera now sitting on the
00:15:57the seabed in salmon pens across
00:15:59across the Scottish Highlands. So
00:16:05So we've left the exhibition centre centre and we're heading three hours
00:16:09hours north to Fort William to find
00:16:11find out what it's actually doing
00:16:14doing down there. Maui is one of
00:16:17of the biggest salmon producers in in Scotland and increasingly one
00:16:21one of the most automated. This is
00:16:26is the nerve centre. It looks less
00:16:28less like a fish farm and more like
00:16:30like mission control. Each operator
00:16:33operator can be responsible for feeding
00:16:35feeding several farms a day, watching
00:16:38watching multiple screens, each showing showing a different pen, a different
00:16:42different stage of fish. This is
00:16:44is my desk, my station. Fantastic.
00:16:48Fantastic. Lovely set-up. Thanks Thanks very much. You've got a nice
00:16:49nice pipe there. Yeah, this is a a PlayStation controller. Sometimes
00:16:53Sometimes you use this to operate operate the feeding systems to find
00:16:55find out. A bit more comfy than leaning
00:16:57leaning over on a desk. But this
00:16:59this is not a game. This is a serious
00:17:01serious business. All the pens are are in sort of a set order, so I'd
00:17:05I'd feed from top to bottom. It can can also pan and tilt completely
00:17:09completely 360. As you can see. So
00:17:11So I get a full view of everything. everything. But we also have the
00:17:15the AI working in the background.
00:17:18background. Now that itself is monitoring monitoring the fish activity and
00:17:20and also the pellets it sees. So So it'll pick up what it thinks to
00:17:24to be a pellet in the water. If it it sees a certain amount of pellets,
00:17:27pellets, it'll notify me and say, say, look, there's pellets getting getting through here. You need to
00:17:31to slow it down. It'll sort of advise advise me what to do next. It'll
00:17:35It'll actually record me a little little video of what I've missed,
00:17:38missed, because it's not always 100% 100% accurate. So review that what
00:17:41what it's seen and what we've come come to an agreement on what to do
00:17:44do next. Salmon are transported from
00:17:47from water to land on vessels like
00:17:49like the Inter Harbour. The biggest
00:17:51biggest whale boat in Scotland. On
00:17:54On board seawater is converted to
00:17:57to fresh water, a process that aims
00:17:59aims to combat a number of
00:18:04issues. It means that we can pack pack up a full of fish and through through that and fresh water, which
00:18:08which is obviously environmentally environmentally friendly so that
00:18:10that all fish for amoeba and any any parasites. So it's really been
00:18:14been a game changer for us. From
00:18:17From the pen to the plate. The next
00:18:19next stop is here the processing
00:18:23processing plant. Now it's less manual
00:18:30manual labour and more automation.
00:18:35automation. We have a lot of new
00:18:38new technology within this facility, facility, including AI cameras that
00:18:40that are used to grade out the fish. fish. And then obviously you can
00:18:44can see below the robots that lift lift our boxes, they actually lift
00:18:48lift around about 95% of our boxes. boxes. If the fish go into a box,
00:18:51box, it's automatically weighed automatically automatically labelled, then automatically
00:18:55automatically iced, then scanned scanned into a robotic system for
00:18:58for onward distribution. So it's it's really important that we get
00:19:01get that fish to the market as quickly quickly as we possibly can. Some
00:19:04Some of the fish you see here being being processed would be in France
00:19:07France tomorrow morning. There's There's been a lot of scrutiny in
00:19:11in the industry around salmon deaths deaths and fish welfare on farms.
00:19:15farms. As an industry leader, how how have you been able to respond
00:19:17respond to that. With the cameras cameras and the systems that we have
00:19:20have now? We have eyes on the fish fish a lot more than we've ever done. done. We're constantly looking at
00:19:24at the health of the fish and, you you know, demand for salmon continues
00:19:27continues to grow and grow. We need need to try and keep up with that that demand because someone somewhere
00:19:30somewhere will try and do that. And
00:19:32And you know, we want it to be Scotland.
00:19:36Scotland. For salmon companies like like Maui. Automation has gone a
00:19:39a long way in making things a lot
00:19:42lot faster with improved monitoring. monitoring. But for this industry
00:19:46industry can more automation mean
00:19:48mean better welfare?
00:20:11In motorsport, usually the
00:20:13driver is the star. But in this competition competition the driver's seat is
00:20:17is actually empty. All that steering, steering, all that manoeuvring, all
00:20:21all that braking it's all been done
00:20:22done by computer. Welcome to Formula
00:20:26Formula Student AI. Silverstone is
00:20:30is better known for Formula One, One, but this week it's the testing
00:20:34testing ground for student engineers engineers building the next generation
00:20:37generation of racing tech. Among
00:20:47Among them is the University of Edinburgh
00:20:50Edinburgh a team with an impressive impressive record in Formula Student.
00:20:54Student. They won the AI category
00:20:58category in 2018, 2019, 2020. You You get the picture. So far, each
00:21:02each win has been with the competition's competition's shared driverless development
00:21:05development vehicle known as DDT.
00:21:09DDT. Traditionally, you get given given a car by the competition and
00:21:12and then you put your sensors onto
00:21:14onto it and you run your software software algorithm to drive the car
00:21:17car autonomously. So this year we've
00:21:19we've brought our own car. That means
00:21:22means Edinburgh are not just testing testing software, they're trying
00:21:25trying to prove the whole vehicle
00:21:27vehicle works as one system. So we
00:21:30we here at the car and I can see see a seat, I can see a driver's
00:21:34driver's headrest. What makes this this an AI self-driving car? So for
00:21:37for example, here you can see the
00:21:39the two perception sensors. So this
00:21:42this is the lidar and this is the the camera. Together they can detect
00:21:45detect the track the environment environment and the data goes all
00:21:48all the way to the back. So here here is the brains of the car that's
00:21:51that's powering the AI then. Exactly.
00:21:54Exactly. So you've got the software software brains which process that
00:21:57that information and then you've you've got the car scripts which
00:22:00which do things like, oh, I wanna wanna accelerate forwards or I want
00:22:03want to steer the wheels. I want
00:22:05want to brake. Formula Student is
00:22:08is run by the Institution of Mechanical Mechanical Engineers and for its
00:22:11its judges, this is not just a test test of speed, but of how well a
00:22:14a car can think for itself. The autonomous
00:22:19autonomous category, it's a very very different challenge in that
00:22:22that it's primarily a software challenge. challenge. How are you taking the
00:22:25the inputs from the vision systems systems and the other sensors that
00:22:28that are on the vehicle? So you're you're getting those inputs digitally digitally from each of the sensors.
00:22:32sensors. They've then got to write write the algorithms that are interpreting
00:22:34interpreting what the car is telling telling them from the sensors to
00:22:38to then make decisions about how how they applying the throttle, the
00:22:41the brakes and the steering for the
00:22:42the car to follow a prescribed course.
00:22:48course. Across Silverstone. The dynamic
00:22:50dynamic events are under way testing
00:22:54testing acceleration, handling and
00:22:56and autonomous control. But Edinburgh
00:22:59Edinburgh are still working through through the checks that come first
00:23:02first and before a driverless car car is allowed to ditch the driver,
00:23:05driver, it has to prove it can do
00:23:07do the basics like stopping. MUSIC
00:23:18MUSIC Job Job done. It's the nervous wait for
00:23:21for the final sign off for the autonomous
00:23:23autonomous vehicle. No other team
00:23:25team in this competition has presented presented their own autonomous car,
00:23:28car, which they've built from scratch.
00:23:31scratch. So to get this far is a a huge achievement, but it also requires
00:23:35requires additional levels of scrutiny scrutiny and that has minimised the
00:23:38the time that the team are going
00:23:39going to get on the track. We've
00:23:46We've had an incredible first few few days in terms of scrutineering
00:23:49scrutineering checks. We passed majority majority of them in record time and
00:23:52and then the last little one took took a bit longer. But getting to
00:23:55to this point has been 4 to 5 year year journey in itself. So we do
00:23:59do feel a bit like we're in uncharted
00:24:03uncharted territory now. Eventually, Eventually, after days of checks,
00:24:07checks, fixes and waiting. I'm happy
00:24:08happy to let them go and take it
00:24:11it out there. Edinburgh get the sign
00:24:13sign off. They have been working
00:24:17working towards. With the car on
00:24:21on the track they were within touching touching distance of competing in
00:24:24in that final hour. It's not going
00:24:29going to do it. The brake pressure pressure on the rear is not enough.
00:24:32enough. But a last minute technical technical setback has left them out
00:24:36out of time. To bring a car to competition
00:24:45competition which is both mechanically mechanically sound and capable of
00:24:49of self-driving around a track is is no mean feat. In fact, no other
00:24:53other team here has presented one one car that does both. Edinburgh
00:24:56Edinburgh are the first and it should should be really proud of that. They've
00:24:59They've presented to the judges a a car which has been signed off as
00:25:03as being safe to race, and they'll
00:25:05they'll be back next year. Edinburgh's
00:25:10Edinburgh's hard work is recognised
00:25:11recognised with two awards for autonomous autonomous design and simulation
00:25:15simulation development. It's been been tougher than I thought it was
00:25:18was going to be. I think even to to get to the stage where you have
00:25:22have the car on the track is a huge, huge, huge achievement and it just just felt like you could just breathe.
00:25:26breathe. I think you forget that that you haven't been breathing for
00:25:28for the past four days. I definitely
00:25:37definitely learned a lot that I would would have never learned otherwise. otherwise. I'd be prepared to put
00:25:40put in the hours to follow your passion passion and then everything should
00:25:44should fall through correctly. MUSIC
00:29:49MUSIC
00:30:13Live from London. This is BBC
00:30:15News. At least two people are killed killed in the Moscow area after a
00:30:19a massive Ukrainian drone attack attack overnight. Russia says it's
00:30:22it's an attempt to disrupt its country's
00:30:24country's elections. The brother brother of Princess Diana Earl Spencer
00:30:27Spencer tells the BBC the treatment treatment of the Duke and Duchess
00:30:30Duchess of Sussex at the hands of of the media has echoes of what happened
00:30:33happened to his late sister. It would would be really beholden on people
00:30:36people to learn from Diana's example. example. I'm not here to speak for
00:30:40for Harry and Meghan, but for anyone
00:30:42anyone who's being destroyed in this
00:30:44this way daily, it must be such a
00:30:47a cancerous influence in their life. life. The German Chancellor, Friedrich
00:30:50Friedrich Merz, is facing growing growing political pressure as local
00:30:53local elections take place in two
00:30:55two German states. Ed Sheeran's apologised
00:30:58apologised to fans for what