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Newswatch will be here in 15 minutes' time.

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Believe it or not, modern nursing as we know it only dates back

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to the 1800s, to the time of Florence Nightingale

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The Royal College of Nursing, here in London,

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is now in its 101st year.

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For all the life-saving technology that we've seen,

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the actual act of nursing itself is one relationship that so far has

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And in the UK, a quarter will be over 65 by 2045.

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This all means that the pressures on nursing are increasing,

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and looking after elderly people is becoming a pressing issue

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Kat Hawkins travelled to Helsinki, in Finland, to discover whether one

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of these could become the new one of these.

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I'm here in Helsinki, visiting the home of Marja Roth

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Hello! Hello, how are you?

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Nice to meet you! Nice meeting you!

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She is an ex-air hostess, who likes to keep active

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Look at the hat as well. That was ages ago!

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But, after a skiing accident a few years ago, she developed epilepsy.

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I was unconscious for a little while, then got up and skied,

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Her epilepsy means she needs daily medication and that her family,

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who live in New York, want to make sure she's OK.

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They get this reassurance from her daily nursing visit,

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Do you think that this is as good as a nursing visit?

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It's better because they see, actually physical, see me,

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and then I don't have to wait for somebody to come.

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They want to check basically that I - ask if I took

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my pill, and... And just see how you are?

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How I... Yeah.

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Face, actually, to see the picture, to see that I'm OK.

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At the other end of the line is Tuomo Kuivamaki.

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He is one of the nurses here in Helsinki's first

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Here, teams of trained nurses each make up to 50 video calls per day

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to people around the city who need support.

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So you've still got that kind of real human...

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And especially some of the older customers, that's like a highlight

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of the day for them, to have sort of a small chat

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The hope is that this will cut down on the number of home visits that

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nurses have to do to people who don't need physical support,

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freeing up more time for those that do.

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The software itself, called Video Visit, works much

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So, while the tech isn't that new, Helsinki is unique in how wisely

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the government is using it, and that can mean big

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An in-person nursing visit can cost around 40 euros,

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but this new type of checkup costs as little as five.

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And what really comes across, watching this call,

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And it just shows that that nursing element,

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that real human connection, is still there, even though it's

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People do hesitate at technology, and especially in nursing.

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We are actually taking care of people.

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It's scary that the robots are coming and taking our jobs.

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Actually, the robots are in here already,

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but they are easing our job, and actually giving us the freedom

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to focus on people who actually need our physical help.

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Now, medical technologies, of course, are improving

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One example is the use of wearable technology

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Now, this can be transformative for people with conditions

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like facial palsy, Parkinson's and autism,

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allowing them to control devices remotely, or even

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My name is Bethan Robertson-Smith, and I'm doing my daily routine.

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It's a series of exercises to flex the muscles in my face.

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In 2008, when I was at university studying to be a veterinary nurse,

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I had a fractured skull, an acquired brain injury,

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and I was left with facial palsy, also known as facial paralysis.

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It meant that every one of the 40 muscles that gave expression

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Years later, I had an operation that allowed me to smile

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like a Mona Lisa, using just two of the chewing muscles that

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It's very hard to know exactly what muscles I need to move

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I came down to Brighton today to try out a new piece of technology that's

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going to help people like myself, who have got facial palsy.

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One of the surgeons who operated on me is part of a team of experts

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developing technologies with sensors to read the muscle activities

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So, when you were first diagnosed, you had an examination called

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the needle EMG, where the needle is put into the skin,

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into the muscles, to read the tiny electrical signals

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With this technology, what we're using is these sensors

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So the same kind of reading, but without the pain,

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You have some degree of crossover between the muscles,

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and that's why you need the machine learning

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to interpret which muscle is activating.

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I'm Sarah Healey, and 30 years ago, I had a brain tumour.

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Try to raise both eyebrows symmetrically.

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The operation to take it out left me with paralysis on the right-hand

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I am certainly not alone, as there are about 100,000 people

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in the UK who have had facial paralysis for years.

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So each one of these dots represents the position

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And so, for example, if you were to try and do

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And the darker the red, the bigger the signal.

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So because my left side is better and stronger...

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..it's showing up as stronger on the screen.

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This is great because for the first time, I'm getting accurate

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information about what is going on with my face.

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I tend to overwork this side of my face, so this really

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is giving me feedback that I have to dampen down the movements I don't

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want, and this is just so good at doing that.

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I sort of try and practise in front of a mirror.

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It's not quite as subtle as this, is it?

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And also, I'm not that keen on looking in mirrors,

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This headset takes all the information from sensors,

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just like in the goggles, but now translates it into real-time

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Yeah, so I'm trying really hard to make her do a full smile...

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Doing it to a mirror, you kind of tell yourself

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Whereas she is like, oh, no, that's not what it looks like.

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It might sound strange to say, but for the first time

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since my accident, I'm able to see what my smile actually looks like.

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Not to make it sound like, I dunno, a strange way,

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but you're kind of doing it with somebody else.

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My biggest aim for this would be to be able to help

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That's been one of my aims for the last 30 years.

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Have you heard the one about the alien who walks

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Now, as impressive as this bizarre setup looks,

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these motion-capture suits and stages are actually the standard

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way that Industrial Light Magic uses actors to give realistic

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movements to computer-generated principal characters.

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No worries! You were very frightening.

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I mean, he's a nice dad, I think, Jalien.

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Even the fact that Jalien here is being rendered in real time

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for the director to see during the performance is not

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What is brand-new here is the live rendering

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You know, our big focus was around the face and being able to capture

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the face at the same time as the body.

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And we can determine what expressions are happening each

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frame, and then directors can see that live and make decisions

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on if the character is working as a character,

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whether his expressions need to change in terms of the model.

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In order to process an actor's expressions quickly enough,

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only one face cam and a few Mo-cap dots are used.

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This simplified live data is then compared to a higher-resolution 3-D

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capture of the actor's face that's taken beforehand on a rig called...

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Now, unlike other facial-capture systems we've seen, which take

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still images of the actor's face, here they're shooting video

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of my face moving into and out of each emotion.

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That means that the facial recreation and the animations

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The live, high-quality rendering of both face and body can also

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become a magic mirror on sets, to help the actor to get

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And I guess it really does make you move differently when you're

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on set, if you're playing a half-tonne alien,

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It totally does, as long as I engage my imagination.

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Because if you can see, I'm totally beautifully...

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You know, in a way that Jalien can't, my wetsuit moves in a way

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that maybe that arm and that outfit doesn't move.

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It's good showing you my, er, my stuff.

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Don't forget, we live on Facebook and on Twitter...

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Thanks for having us at your place, Jalien.

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Now, get out of here! Yeah.

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Hmm... Out!

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