13/03/2014 Newsround


13/03/2014

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Hi, guys, Ayshah here. First up, Britain's Paralympic

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curling team have made it to the semifinals. The team got through to

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the final four despite losing their latest match to China, after other

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results went their way. Next, you'll probably remember

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seeing this car on Newsround when we told you about the floods in

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Somerset earlier this year. Well, the vehicle has now been reunited

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with its owner. Footage of the car was seen around the world, and even

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the Prince of Wales passed it on a boat. All right, let's have a look.

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Amazing. It smells. It's unbelievably disgusting in there. I

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wasn't expecting my car to be on telly and then eventually to be on

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international news and the newspapers.

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All this week on Newsround, we've been showing you the ground-breaking

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technology behind the next wave of robots. Well, now researchers are

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developing machines based on some of the smallest and fastest creatures

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on planet earth. Ricky went to meet the scientists who are creating

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robots by looking very closely at these - ants!

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(MUSIC). We've entered this new and exciting

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phase in robotics where the technology is taking inspiration

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from nature around us and us humans, too. We're now trying to make robots

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that will work in the real world, which is a kind of messy, untidy

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place. The world is full of amazing animals, amazing creatures, who get

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on perfectly well in the real world. They provide us not only with

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inspiration but fantastic designs. Tell us about the Swarm and how

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those robots operate. It's meant to behave like an ant. The collection

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of robots, so the entire colony of robots, is designed to model the way

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ants forage for food. Some scientists argue that there isn't

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much point in basing a robot on a human being, because we're far too

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complex. So they turned their attention to robots inspired by

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biology, things like ants, a grasshopoper and even a flea. There

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are plenty of people still interested in robots that look and

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behave like people, but many of us realise that most robots that we

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really need in the real world don't need to look like people and it's

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probably best if they don't. Finally, Alan Shearer and Robbie

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Savage are nearing the end of their Sport Relief challenge. The pair are

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trying to be the first to sit on half the seats in Wembley Stadium.

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That's 45,000 seats each. They have until tomorrow to finish.

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That's it for now.

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