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00:03:37Panda, nice to meet you, this is a companion
00:03:40robot created by a Chinese technology
00:03:44company. Our goal is to apply live
00:03:47interaction technology in companion robots so that they better
00:03:51understand human intentions. No less important is
00:03:54what is often forgotten in the field of AI today,
00:03:57which is the expression of emotions.
00:04:00The traditional Narva Opera Days will be held
00:04:03for the tenth time. We will ask the
00:04:06artistic director of this festival, Yulia
00:04:10Savitskaya, what will happen.
00:04:14The tigress Umit takes her first steps in the wild in
00:04:17the Ile-Balkhash Nature Reserve in Kazakhstan.
00:04:21A historic day, we are starting to implement
00:04:24the project of reintroduction of the Turanian
00:04:27Tiger. Preparation took a long time -
00:04:3010
00:04:31years.
00:04:38In China, as in Europe, there is also abnormal heat, but
00:04:41there they fight it with the help of new technologies,
00:04:45what the Chinese came up with this time, about this in the next
00:04:48story.
00:04:53Eastern China was covered by abnormal heat,
00:04:56the air temperature exceeded 40°.
00:05:00In these conditions, city services came to the aid of
00:05:03street sweepers, who gave them special vests with
00:05:06air conditioning. Two silent fans are built into the bright
00:05:10equipment, powered by an ordinary
00:05:14battery. They provide constant air circulation and
00:05:17accelerate sweat evaporation, helping to endure long shifts
00:05:21under the scorching sun. One battery charge
00:05:25is enough for 3-4 hours of continuous
00:05:27operation, and during the lunch break, the vests
00:05:31are sent for centralized recharging for the second half
00:05:34of the day. Hi, I'm Panda, a cute
00:05:38three-year-old robot Panda, nice to meet you.
00:05:43Avkhanch Zhou presented the world's first
00:05:46companion robot with artificial emotional
00:05:49intelligence. The device, nicknamed Panda, was created for
00:05:53children and is designed to become a true friend for them. The robot
00:05:56not only looks like a cute panda, but also maintains
00:06:00a body temperature close to human.
00:06:03Our goal is to apply live interaction technology
00:06:07in companion robots so that they better understand human
00:06:10intentions. No less important is what is often forgotten today in
00:06:14the field of AI, which is the expression of emotions,
00:06:17for example, the ability to convey feelings with the right look or
00:06:20movement. The combination of these functions we call
00:06:24embodied live interaction.
00:06:27The robot can recognize a child's mood, helps form
00:06:30good habits and teaches English in a playful
00:06:34format.
00:06:36And in China's Guangdong province, an important step has been taken in the development
00:06:40of high technologies. In Shunde district, the country's first
00:06:44state agency for the development of smart robots was created, this special
00:06:47bureau will manage the creation of machines with artificial intelligence
00:06:51that can work in the real world, in factories, on streets
00:06:54and in everyday life. Shunde is the largest
00:06:58robotics center in China, where more than a hundred
00:07:02enterprises operate, and factory workshops, smart homes and urban
00:07:05services serve as an ideal platform for testing new
00:07:09humanoid assistants.
00:07:12In Nanjing, culinary
00:07:15technologies have gone even further, a fully automated
00:07:18restaurant has opened there, where robots
00:07:22work instead of chefs, smart devices
00:07:24independently fry dishes and cook noodles, using
00:07:28artificial intelligence algorithms for precise control of temperature,
00:07:32spices and cooking time.
00:07:35Our equipment allows us to serve more than 2,000
00:07:39people per shift. The menu features over
00:07:4240 dishes. Our database contains more than
00:07:463,000 recipes from all eight main cuisines
00:07:50of China. This means that we can update
00:07:53the menu every day for a whole month and never
00:07:56repeat ourselves.
00:08:00Meanwhile, in Hong Kong, the world's first
00:08:04tests of a fully self-driving car were held
00:08:07in left-hand traffic conditions. Baidu's autonomous
00:08:10taxi successfully drove along the specified
00:08:14route on the territory of the local airport, making all
00:08:17planned stops, the test drive went flawlessly,
00:08:21despite the torrential
00:08:22rain.
00:08:30Narva Opera Days celebrate
00:08:33their 10th anniversary, we will talk about this event today with the artistic
00:08:36director of this event, Yulia Savitskaya is in our studio. Good evening,
00:08:40thank you for coming. Hello. 10
00:08:43years ago, for some this may be a long time, for others it is just
00:08:46the beginning, how do you feel, are you at the beginning of the journey or
00:08:50do you already have a lot of experience, a lot of
00:08:53history, well, it depends on what you compare it to, yes, because 10
00:08:57years, yes, it's a long, long period, a lot
00:09:00has been done, a lot has been learned, and for me
00:09:04the most important thing is that experience has appeared, uh-huh, it's also very
00:09:08important that we have our own audience, people who
00:09:12are waiting... for the festival, who come every year and
00:09:15somehow pass on information to their friends and acquaintances, yes, this is the so-called
00:09:19word of mouth, which, I think, works in any country,
00:09:22in Estonia it works very well, our festival has become
00:09:26quite popular, and I like
00:09:29that at the beginning there was a plan that we would only present
00:09:33contemporary music, contemporary opera, contemporary ballet, that is, music
00:09:37that composers are writing now, but
00:09:40unfortunately I realized that the audience
00:09:44is not ready for this, because people who,
00:09:47well, not everyone has been to the opera house, right, not everyone has been to the ballet, and the audience
00:09:51is a little scared to come to the opera for the first time,
00:09:54especially since it's unfamiliar, right, surely many
00:09:57people know such operas as Carmen or, I don't know,
00:10:01Swan Lake ballet, but very few people
00:10:04know that there is an opera like Philip Glass's opera this year,
00:10:07Einstein on the Beach, so
00:10:11the audience is afraid and...
00:10:25some famous ballet, that is, we have not only opera, we also have ballet, maybe we have
00:10:28operetta, and some concerts, and I
00:10:32always try, if not a world premiere, then
00:10:35something modern, closer to modernity, some new production,
00:10:39uh-huh, so it's like a
00:10:42hamburger, right, there's a headliner, and there's something
00:10:46hidden so that people can taste and discover something
00:10:49new for themselves, you already said that you have your own
00:10:53audience, so did you immediately conceive of this festival
00:10:57for guests of Narva or did you initially expect
00:11:00the Narva audience, who is your audience? Well, Narva is
00:11:04a small city, I naturally understood that we cannot
00:11:08fill large halls only with the Narva audience, of course, I
00:11:11assumed and we plan that some guests will come from Estonia
00:11:15and other cities, as well as guests from other countries, and
00:11:19also people who live in Narva, and guests for
00:11:22Narva from abroad, from other countries, from... cities, I think, are very
00:11:26important, because this is also a financial profit for the city, and
00:11:29tourists, all this is interconnected and helps other businesses that
00:11:33are related to serving tourists, I think that this is
00:11:37very useful and yes, it was planned that way from the beginning, well
00:11:40the Kreenholm Manufactory, how difficult is it to organize a
00:11:44festival there, especially an opera festival, opera days?
00:11:47Well, it's not difficult, people go there, I think most people who are not
00:11:51from Narva, although maybe people from Narva also come to see exactly...
00:11:55how to say it, what seems unsuitable at first, that is,
00:11:59Kreenholm is a post-industrial space,
00:12:02classical music, opera, it doesn't fit, but very often what doesn't
00:12:05fit, it already forms some
00:12:09kind of artistic
00:12:11work, Kreenholm, opera, and many people come not just
00:12:15for the opera, not just for Kreenholm, but to see the opera in Kreenholm, because
00:12:18there is excellent acoustics, amazing acoustics,
00:12:22if we do it outside, then minimal
00:12:25amplification, and did you discover this already during
00:12:29the organization of the festival, or did you plan
00:12:32this in advance and specially organized the
00:12:35opera days precisely in the Kreenholm Manufactory because
00:12:38of its acoustics? No, it's not like that, but
00:12:42whenever you're a musician, one way or another,
00:12:45you come into a space, you check it, you feel
00:12:49the acoustics, you sing a little, great, so
00:12:52it wasn't, you check for obstacles? Or what to
00:12:56do there at all, in Kreenholm there are, of course, inside there are such halls that have
00:12:59a very large echo, but also this echo can
00:13:02be regulated, hang fabrics, do something so that yes, and
00:13:06for some music styles, for example, for ancient music, musicians
00:13:09came to us, they said: great, like playing in a church, that is, it can also be such a versatile
00:13:13space, tell us about this year's
00:13:16program, what's the lineup?
00:13:19August 14, August 14 we will have
00:13:23an opera gala concert.
00:13:29where ERSO, the Estonian Symphony Orchestra, will also take part, I don't know exactly
00:13:32how its name will sound correctly in Russian,
00:13:35there will be world-class soloists, I think that those who
00:13:39are interested should go to our
00:13:42Facebook page, there is a lot of information there, so I advise you to go to Facebook and see which
00:13:46soloists, this is Alexander Antonenko, who
00:13:49sang at the Metropolitan Opera, he suddenly comes to us, this is a great
00:13:53honor for us, also a soloist
00:13:55from Sweden will come and a soloist from
00:13:59Ukraine and of course Kari Strauss, this is our Estonian singer, will also take part
00:14:03in the gala concert. On August
00:14:0615, the opera Einstein on
00:14:09the Beach will be performed, now I want to definitely go back to it, I
00:14:13will just say that we will have such a preliminary event that is not part of the festival
00:14:16program, on August 13 there will be such
00:14:20a tango evening, that is, an evening of tango music and dances, this is not
00:14:23an... but it is very worth visiting, the Odessa
00:14:27Opera House from Odessa is coming, they
00:14:30will be ballet dancers, they will dance
00:14:34tango, and the Odessa
00:14:37Camarata ensemble will accompany all
00:14:40this, I think it will be very beautiful and enchanting, that is,
00:14:44the weather is still warm now, inside, by the way, even if it rains, people don't
00:14:47need to worry, this year everything is under a roof, we will also make sure that
00:14:51people can see everything well and it's warm and...
00:14:55there will also be a restaurant, everything will be wonderful, well, if we go back
00:14:59to the 15th, Philip Glass's opera is
00:15:03conceived without an intermission, the opera lasts 4.5
00:15:06hours, but this does not mean that a person will come and sit
00:15:09there all this time, we made such a format that people can
00:15:13come and go from the hall, that is, a person sat,
00:15:16went to the restaurant, bought
00:15:19a drink, something to eat and returned, even during the opera, it's during
00:15:23the opera, but of course, yes, but of course. So that it wouldn't be like throwing a
00:15:27chair on the floor, quietly leaving, buying
00:15:30a drink, eating, you can walk around
00:15:33outside, on the territory of Krymholm, we have such acoustics that everything will be...
00:16:37and don't miss this event, well, now about
00:16:40animals, who and how protects the tiger population,
00:16:44about this in the next
00:16:44selection.
00:16:50A female Amur tiger named Umit took the first step towards a new
00:16:54life. In the Ile-Balkhash Nature Reserve in Kazakhstan, the
00:16:57predator was released into the wild as part of a program
00:17:00to restore the tiger population. A historic
00:17:03day, we actually begin
00:17:06today
00:17:08to implement the project
00:17:11of reintroducing the Turanian tiger. Preparations
00:17:15took a long time, 10 years.
00:17:17Caspian tigers once lived in vast territories of Central
00:17:21Asia, but disappeared in the 20th century due to hunting, habitat
00:17:25destruction, and a reduction in their food base. Amur tigers
00:17:28are considered close relatives of Caspian tigers, so scientists
00:17:31expect that the animals will be able to adapt to new
00:17:34conditions. The Tiger Project has
00:17:38great significance for restoring the ecosystem.
00:17:42As you know, the long
00:17:45chain of biodiversity consists of various species of
00:17:49plants and animals, the loss of any species can
00:17:52lead to irreversible processes. Specialists will
00:17:55observe the tigress's behavior in nature before releasing four more
00:17:59tigers, establishing a sustainable population can take
00:18:03decades.
00:18:06At Chester Zoo in Great Britain, a rare
00:18:09event occurred. For the first time in almost 95 years of the institution's
00:18:12existence, chicks of the Secretary bird appeared
00:18:14here. These birds are endangered
00:18:18in the wild. There are only
00:18:2179 individuals in various collections across Europe,
00:18:25only three chicks hatched this
00:18:28year. The chicks were born to the pair John and Jolene. Over the past
00:18:31year, they had five chicks. The first two were hand-fed
00:18:35by zoo staff, but...
00:18:41This is one of two species of birds of prey that hunt on
00:18:45the ground, most birds of prey strike their prey
00:18:48from flight, and these birds are truly unique,
00:18:52just watching them walk on the grass is already
00:18:55fantastic. The main weapon of this bird is powerful
00:18:59leg strikes, so it can cope even with venomous
00:19:03snakes. Despite its formidable appearance, its numbers continue
00:19:06to decline. The main reason for the decline in the number
00:19:10of Secretary birds is the loss of natural
00:19:13habitat due to agriculture and the expansion of
00:19:16settlements. Therefore, we are trying to create
00:19:20protected areas where they can survive and
00:19:22thrive.
00:19:25The European heat forces even the largest land animals to seek ways to cool
00:19:28down. At the Vienna Zoo, a small elephant calf learns to take
00:19:32water procedures with adult members of the herd. In the midst of summer.
00:19:35We, of course, help our elephants
00:19:39cool down. Every day after lunch, well, or almost
00:19:43every day, we give them an outdoor
00:19:46shower to help them cope
00:19:48with the heat. Elephants also swim in
00:19:52the pool on their own, the elephant calf usually follows its favorite aunt, checking how
00:19:56deep it can go into the pool. After swimming, it's usually
00:19:59time for mud, and then for sand, the ideal
00:20:03skincare
00:20:04procedure.
00:20:52Apparently, we are having
00:20:54a mirror-garden victory, the mirror is
00:20:58the best thing you could miss, that is, we
00:21:02sent a wish to the universe, today at
00:21:0518:00, it should have been made
00:21:08wider.
00:21:15Since the beginning of the war, every second person has left Kyiv,
00:21:19but they remained, Olga, her two
00:21:22children and two husbands. I love you so much,
00:21:25really.
00:21:29Go, drive, faster, come on. Klaus, a German who goes to
00:21:33Ukraine to save his girlfriend. And even
00:21:35Verka Serduchka. You say you don't have
00:21:39a family. But for many, you
00:21:41are family. Their stories in the series First
00:21:45Days. Today at 21:30 on ETV
00:21:48Plus.
00:22:50opened borders, I want to know how European countries endured
00:22:53these strict restrictions, how
00:22:56society is gradually opening up, has the unity of
00:23:00Europe been preserved? And I also took on
00:23:03the mission of saving Estonia's restaurant and hotel
00:23:07business, that is, to attract tourists back to us.
00:23:10And I will start, of course, with Finns, we have
00:23:14a test.
00:23:47Johannes's business trip.
00:26:34Now creative incubators and
00:26:36artisans work here, in the future a new residential area will be built here. This
00:26:40settlement will be special, since the construction and further arrangement
00:26:44of life will be based on the noble principles
00:26:47of the circular
00:26:49economy.
00:26:52Recycled materials can be used instead of new
00:26:56materials, the production of which requires large amounts of electricity
00:26:59and is a source of carbon dioxide emissions.
00:28:33This toilet is without flushing. The pipe
00:28:36is directly connected to a container in the basement, where this
00:28:40fertilizer accumulates.
00:28:44But it doesn't go to the wastewater treatment plant, it's
00:28:47composted, which in turn is used to fertilize
00:28:51local fields and grow food. Closed
00:28:55cycle.
00:28:55цикл.