14/03/2014 Newsround

Good morning, guys. It's Friday, I'm Ayshah and I've got your news and

sport headlines, including: Ricky gets his brain scanned and finds out

how robots may soon be able to think just like us.

And: An unusual welcome to the world for this brand new baby gorilla.

This is Newsround. First an update on Ukraine. World

leaders want Russia to stop its action in Crimea in the south of

Ukraine. The area came under Russian control last month, and the army

moved in. A big vote will be held this Sunday asking the people of

Crimea to choose whether they want to be part of Russia over the region

to operate as a republic on its own. This morning, the US Secretary of

State John Kerry is preparing for important talks with Russia's

Foreign Minister, and says America and Europe will be watching Russia

very carefully. All week we've been showing you how

a new wave of robotics is changing the way we work, play and live with

robots. But some experts say it won't be long before robots are

thinking like us, too. In fact, the chief engineer at Google reckons in

just 15 years' time, computers will be more intelligent than humans.

They'll be able to understand what we say, learn from experience and

even tell stories. It sounds pretty cool, but should we be trying to

build human-like robots at all? Here's Ricky.

The brain is the most complex organ in the body. It is the command

centre that controls everything from our heartbeat to how we feel.

Electrical signals send information along pathways that allow us to

think, feel and act. But now scientists are using what they know

about the human brain to build a supercomputer that could one day,

way off in the future, allow a robot to think for themselves.

Spinnaker is one of the most advanced computers in the world.

When it is finished, it will contain a million microprocessors. So this

is a scan of my brain. You are trying to create a computer which is

based on the same principles, is that correctques-mac we know what

the brain looks like and how it is structured, but we still don't

understand how it works. So we are building a machine that allows us to

build little computer models of what is happening inside the brain to see

if we can improve our understanding. Some experts say there are concerns

when it comes to giving robots the ability to think for themselves. I

think it is a good idea if we know that what we are interacting with is

an artificial being rather than a human being. Trying to pass off

robots as humans is probably something that we don't want to do.

But there is demand for robots and computers that think like us. Google

are currently developing an artificially intelligent search

engine that they say will know us better than we know ourselves. But

whether it is right or wrong will be a debate that we are likely to have

even more as the world of robotics continues to evolve.

Thank you, Ricky. You've been sending us your robot designs all

this week, and later on this afternoon we'll be showing some of

them to a robotics expert. Head to the website to check out a selection

of your designs in our gallery. This one's from Natasha in London. It's a

robotic guide dog for the blind. Here's two bots from Jet, aged six -

they do everything he needs them to do. And this is from Alex in

Berkshire. He's ten. This is a bomb-disposal robot that can help

the Army. And the website's also where you can

catch up with all the rest of Ricky's robot reports.

Sport now, and it's been a pretty dodgy week all round for British

clubs in Europe, with Arsenal and Man City's Champion's League dreams

ending, and now Tottenham are in real trouble in the Europa League

too. They lost 3-1 at home to Portuguese side Benfica last night,

which means they'll have a huge job to do in next Thursday's away

fixture in Lisbon if they're to reach the quarterfinals.

It wouldn't be Friday without a cute animal story. And so here we go. A

baby gorilla has been delivered by a rare animal Caesarean section at the

San Diego Zoo in America. 18-year-old mother Imani gave birth

to a two kilogram newborn girl. A team of surgeons delivered the baby

after the mother struggled during birth. They say mother and baby are

now doing well. Finally, we want your questions for

the UK's first official astronaut, Major Tim Peake. In 2015 Tim will

spend six months onboard the International Space Station carrying

out scientific experiments, but we're speaking to him today. So get

to the Newsround website and send us your questions.

That's all from me, Ricky's here this afternoon at 4.20. Cf.