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This week, DNA crimes. Keeping you save on the streets and flying | :00:00. | :00:19. | |
high... Oh, no! Drone down! Drone down! | :00:20. | :00:42. | |
From a drone that can deliver blood, to one that can balance a stick and | :00:43. | :00:50. | |
throw you a ball, there does seem to be no end to what this tech can do. | :00:51. | :00:56. | |
But for as long as we've covered drones there's always been one major | :00:57. | :01:02. | |
shortcoming, battery power. But all that could be about to change if | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
researchers at Imperial College London have their way. This Roman | :01:07. | :01:12. | |
doesn't fly very high and it really isn't going to go very far, but it | :01:13. | :01:17. | |
is still very impressive because it has no battery. -- this drone. | :01:18. | :01:23. | |
Whatsoever. It is getting its power wirelessly from the power transfer | :01:24. | :01:28. | |
pad underneath. So there's no battery and so I can stick that | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
underneath just to prove there are no wires. That is wireless charging, | :01:34. | :01:44. | |
or wireless power transfer. The breakthrough the team here have made | :01:45. | :01:47. | |
is being able to transfer the power wirelessly over much larger | :01:48. | :01:53. | |
distances than that used in say phones or electric toothbrushes. One | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
of the things that we targeted straightaway was the fact that we | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
wanted to get large distance. So we weren't just trying to do the phone | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
charging where you are in contact with the charging pad. Fundamentally | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
to do that you needed to upgrade the system at a higher frequency. But to | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
get the system to be efficient you have to go up in frequency by a | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
factor of up to 100, which is a challenge. While you wouldn't really | :02:21. | :02:23. | |
want a drone that doesn't have a battery, being able to charge on | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
wirelessly on promote charging stations could mean a lot more | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
flying time. One of the things that will make a huge difference for | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
people is the ability to recharge medical implants using this | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
technology. We are especially interested in the pumps placed in | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
the heart, if you have a weak heart muscle. At the moment they require a | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
wire through the skin to provide power. The data we can transform | :02:50. | :02:56. | |
wirelessly, but the fact that we can now transfer power means any | :02:57. | :02:59. | |
infection that could transfer through the puncture in the skin can | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
be completely avoided. But in the new -- near future Paul can see it | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
being used for military surveillance, recharging from base | :03:10. | :03:12. | |
stations or even in the air, like other larger drones. That is, as | :03:13. | :03:19. | |
long as they can actually stay airborne. And actually it turns out | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
that there is already a use for autonomous drones that can fly | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
steady distances. To explain more, we have to go to Australia. A couple | :03:29. | :03:38. | |
of years ago we met Outback Joe. He needed water to save his life and | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
drones came to the rescue. Now our flying friends are back. Just | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
outside Golby, in Queensland, the world's toughest drone cop edition | :03:48. | :03:57. | |
is about to kick off. -- Dalby. Ten teams are competing for the price | :03:58. | :04:00. | |
and this year the challenge is more complicated. Their drawings must | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
take off, locate Joe, land, collect a blood sample for his doctor to | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
analyse and return safely to base. All autonomously, all in under one | :04:11. | :04:17. | |
hour. Our reporter on the ground was there. | :04:18. | :04:24. | |
Here he is! Joe, the man himself, standing tall and he is supposed to | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
be standing cossies meant to be someone capable of placing at blood | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
sample into a drone and arming it for takeoff. -- because he. But it | :04:33. | :04:40. | |
is much more difficult to see from up there. And that's just one of the | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
many complex aspects of this treacherous challenge. The big | :04:46. | :04:51. | |
difference between this challenge and other drone challenges is the | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
great distances involved. The teams are flying about 23 kilometres to | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
get to this site. It is very challenging because it's a very | :05:00. | :05:02. | |
cluttered environment. Joe is deliberately in a rough area, there | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
are big trees around, there are farm buildings. That makes it extremely | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
difficult and then they have to fly another 23 kilometres to get back. | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
To be in with a chance, teams have come up with all shapes and sizes of | :05:17. | :05:23. | |
winged warriors. So, as the race begins, let's cross to Nick. | :05:24. | :05:31. | |
First up is this Canadian couple who hoped to fly to victory with their | :05:32. | :05:39. | |
custom drone. It seems to be drifting on the wind. But there hope | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
is shortly to, as one of their drones comes tumbling down. From | :05:45. | :05:47. | |
this point on it is about returning to base. So it is in the truck and | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
off to track down the wayward plane for a manual landing. This year, | :05:53. | :06:00. | |
teams are allowed to enter not only on but a secondary communications | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
relay aircraft too. Great for maintaining a to base, but the rules | :06:06. | :06:11. | |
stipulate that if one goes down the other must return directly home. | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
With the circulating planes safely landed, the judges call an auxiliary | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
support to locate the crashed aircraft. We are just going to have | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
a bit of a look, see if we can have a view from above. It is in a nice, | :06:27. | :06:34. | |
big, green field, so an eye in the sky will give it a help. But even | :06:35. | :06:40. | |
from the sky the drone was impossible to spot. Back at base, | :06:41. | :06:47. | |
this Thai team prepped their custom topper for takeoff and it soon blast | :06:48. | :06:54. | |
off for Joe. Using a video games controller they scan the screen for | :06:55. | :06:57. | |
visible Bell possible sightings of Joe. They have found Joe, but then | :06:58. | :07:06. | |
disaster strikes. Smoke! It's coming down. | :07:07. | :07:14. | |
We found Joe. We tried to get to him but smoke was coming out first and | :07:15. | :07:26. | |
it crashed. One of the differences between this challenge and other | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
drone challenges is it is incredibly realistic. We've chosen a place | :07:31. | :07:33. | |
where it really does flood, we've chosen a realistic farm, we've | :07:34. | :07:39. | |
chosen a totally realistic to rein and there are tall trees, uneven | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
ground and the distances are about the same sorts of distances that you | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
would get between a cut-off area in a flood and town. So it is the | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
realism we are after and getting teams to develop the technology, so | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
they can actually solve the problem in the real world. And being cut off | :07:56. | :07:58. | |
from healthcare is a real-world problem. The drone takes developed | :07:59. | :08:04. | |
here would one day be life-saving. -- drone tech. As part of the | :08:05. | :08:07. | |
challenge teams have also had to invent novel blood carrying | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
components, with detailed instructions on how to use them. | :08:12. | :08:17. | |
Again, just slide it in and there is a click mechanism inside. Now, they | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
say necessity is the mother of invention. Well, for these guys that | :08:23. | :08:33. | |
meant creating this beauty - heil the delftocopter! This can take off | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
and land vertically but upon reaching altitude it transforms and | :08:38. | :08:40. | |
can repel itself forward like a plane. It's especially designed | :08:41. | :08:46. | |
broker can control pitch during the transition. The team also built | :08:47. | :08:53. | |
custom auto software and took things to a new level using an elevated | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
platform to get the signal up and above. Its special downward facing | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
200 degrees cameras means that when flying horizontally it can still see | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
the ground and having two of them did depth perception as well. -- | :09:08. | :09:13. | |
gives. Like an invincible Phoenix, there are fixed wing flew and | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
then... Terminate. The judges say to terminate, you are in a tree. Oh! | :09:18. | :09:28. | |
The Australian gum tree. The tree was 22 metres high. You need luck. | :09:29. | :09:39. | |
Bad luck for Mav Lab and the losing streak only worsen. To Nick for more | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
in the ground and in the air events. With so many crashes, a storm is | :09:45. | :10:01. | |
brewing. It is such a difficult task, with ceremony criteria to be | :10:02. | :10:08. | |
met, that even a little wind can make all the difference between | :10:09. | :10:15. | |
success and catastrophic failure. So what of the reigning champions, | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
Canberra? They won the last challenge and have returned with a | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
souped up version of the fixed wing plane Felix. They've added Virtual | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
takeoff and landing with eight independent props, making sure it | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
stays airborne if one of them blows. And a chopper to being signal back | :10:33. | :10:39. | |
to base. The team captain, Andrew, developed the autopilot software | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
that most of the teams are using, meaning they have a keen upper hand. | :10:45. | :10:51. | |
It is a complex butterfly type pattern. That's how we approach Joe | :10:52. | :11:00. | |
from every angle. And he is off! On board, they've developed a special | :11:01. | :11:07. | |
Joe detection system, that analyses photos for any unusual objects. They | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
then do a visual study on each. But he is soon feeling the heat. No | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
moving the truck please. I need the shade. I've got Joe. Yes, they've | :11:18. | :11:27. | |
got him! It is now a race against time to get back. Touchdown! Mission | :11:28. | :11:38. | |
complete. In the end, Canberra's chopper didn't return home but a | :11:39. | :11:46. | |
winner was still announced. The winner is Canberra UAV. Everyone | :11:47. | :11:53. | |
that got up flying is a winner. It was a tough challenge and we didn't | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
finish the mission but as a team I think we did very well and I think | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
all the teams who got here did very well. This event has been absolutely | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
amazing, so thank you so much. It's a great achievement but they're | :12:06. | :12:08. | |
still clearly a lot of work to do before drones can autonomously | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
perform such complicated tasks. So, what for the next drone challenge? | :12:14. | :12:27. | |
Welcome to the weak Intech. It the week that Uber's self driving truck | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
made the world's first autonomous truck delivery. And if the | :12:32. | :12:34. | |
recipients wanted to raise a glass to celebrate, conveniently it was | :12:35. | :12:40. | |
transporting 50,000 beers. It was revealed smartwatch sales last | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
quarter only resulted to 2.7 million, less than half the number | :12:45. | :12:47. | |
sold in the same period last year, and it was also the week that | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
Microsoft announced an update to Windows ten, featuring 3D creation | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
and editing tools, does a range of the art headsets to get your... Head | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
around what you create. The Samsung note seven saga continues, as it | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
reveals one third of Europeans haven't returned their devices. But | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
we will get an update that prevents the battery from getting over 60% | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
fall. No, not Laura, Lara. As in Lara Croft, but less adventurous. | :13:15. | :13:21. | |
Sorry, I've got to go! It is also the forgive anniversary of people | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
spelling my name right, or the launch of the first to grade again. | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
The hit franchise turned 20 this week. -- Tomb Raider. And if you | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
felt the world was short of aerobatic Caterpillar powered by | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
light, fear no more. -- robotic Caterpillar. This is made from | :13:40. | :13:47. | |
liquid components. It can squeeze into small spaces and move objects | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
ten times its size. Maybe it needs its own activity to the next. | :13:53. | :14:00. | |
Welcome to Somerset House in London. This place is home to over 300 | :14:01. | :14:09. | |
artist and makers from a wide variety of disciplines. Bursting | :14:10. | :14:14. | |
with creativity, every turn revealing something inspiring. I've | :14:15. | :14:20. | |
come to see a small exhibition that celebrates the opening of a new | :14:21. | :14:24. | |
studio space. A lot of the works on display here feature some kind of | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
tech, a real testament to how technology is shaping our lives and | :14:30. | :14:33. | |
inspiring artists to think about its impact on society. In this short | :14:34. | :14:43. | |
film, creators visualise a time when drones are constantly monitoring the | :14:44. | :14:47. | |
city, and where these networks of flying machines influence our | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
decisions. It is a future where we are monitored by flying security and | :14:53. | :14:56. | |
traffic cameras, and shouted out by airborne advertising. -- shouted at. | :14:57. | :15:08. | |
I'm watching is the London-based musical duo Patterns' latest video. | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
It is on show here because of the way it was created. Instead of lots | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
of computers rendering the scene of the several hours, this is a | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
videogame's engine to render it in real time. Shadows, reflections, | :15:21. | :15:27. | |
rain, all done in one take. This is a testament to how good video | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
graphics cards have become, at creating pretty realistic images on | :15:32. | :15:35. | |
the go. I caught up with the creator of the work, Tom, who told me about | :15:36. | :15:41. | |
a theory that sounded frighteningly familiar. There is a philosophical | :15:42. | :15:49. | |
thought at the moment that is being bandied around about simulation | :15:50. | :15:52. | |
theory, which is the speed technology is moving, with more's | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
law and the singular Arti and all that, our future ancestors, when the | :15:58. | :16:00. | |
technology is there, why wouldn't they start to Sydney late history? | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
So there are some people who think it is more likely we are living in a | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
simulation right now than we are living in what would be deemed as | :16:09. | :16:12. | |
reality. And one of the reasons, one of the items people have, is the | :16:13. | :16:15. | |
speed that games technology is moving, because that is just a | :16:16. | :16:18. | |
simulation of a train carriage, but with a lot more compute in power you | :16:19. | :16:23. | |
could simulate this room, this building, this country, this world, | :16:24. | :16:28. | |
this universe. Now onto another type of tax that has also been made | :16:29. | :16:32. | |
possible by real-time graphics. Augmented reality. By projecting | :16:33. | :16:37. | |
graphics on top of the real world, we have seen it the inn used to show | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
people how to fix things, or give them a taste of walking on Mars. | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
Microsoft is currently experimenting with a our with Kholo Lends. -- | :16:47. | :16:54. | |
experiment in with AR. But the big players are not alone in combining | :16:55. | :17:01. | |
to remake and wearables. This is the headquarters in San | :17:02. | :17:04. | |
Francisco of a company called OD G. Here, it manufactures and AR headset | :17:05. | :17:11. | |
called the R seven. At the moment, this device is primarily a tool for | :17:12. | :17:16. | |
the workplace. The grasses are a soft contained had warned computer, | :17:17. | :17:19. | |
running a version of the Android operating system. But while lots of | :17:20. | :17:24. | |
industries recognise the potential of AR, the technology has had | :17:25. | :17:27. | |
difficulty training -- gaining traction with mainstream consumers. | :17:28. | :17:31. | |
That was until only this summer, when a lot of people went to pocket | :17:32. | :17:37. | |
monster mad. Pokemon Go and Snapchat have shown that the consumer is | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
ready for augmented reality. We just have to present the right platform. | :17:42. | :17:45. | |
Holding a phone, a mobile device, makes our hands tied. You do it once | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
in a while and then it loses its charm. But augmented reality | :17:50. | :17:53. | |
immerses you. It blows your reality with the digital world. So once a | :17:54. | :17:57. | |
platform exists, the people will adopt it. One of the developers here | :17:58. | :18:05. | |
thought, why not adapt Pokemon Go, a game designed to work on | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
smartphones, for this headset? After about an hour fiddling with the | :18:11. | :18:13. | |
code, that is exactly what he managed to do. And it is exactly | :18:14. | :18:19. | |
what can see right now. -- what I can see. Where are you? Sneaky | :18:20. | :18:26. | |
Pokemon, where are you? There you are! Got my ball. That's it! Looking | :18:27. | :18:37. | |
for Pokemon inside an office is OK, but the real test of this bit of kit | :18:38. | :18:53. | |
is to take it outside. Now, of course, all of the game's visuals | :18:54. | :18:57. | |
are on the headset in front of me, which means I've got far less chance | :18:58. | :19:09. | |
of actually walking into anything. Pokemon Go on this headset is a bit | :19:10. | :19:13. | |
of fun, really. At just over ?2000 they are not cheap. But that is | :19:14. | :19:17. | |
because they are designed for industrial use. This does prove, | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
though, is the potential of augmented reality technology for | :19:23. | :19:25. | |
consumers. If you will excuse me, where is that Jigglypuff? | :19:26. | :19:39. | |
Ever feel vulnerable when you are walking alone? Well, I've been | :19:40. | :19:43. | |
taking a look at some of the latest devices that are hoping to keep you | :19:44. | :19:49. | |
company. Students at this college in London's Brixton have created ICE, | :19:50. | :19:57. | |
as in "In case of an emergency", a connected panic button with big | :19:58. | :19:59. | |
ambitions that has recently gone into crowdfunding. This is what the | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
finished product will look like. To avoid false alarms you need to | :20:05. | :20:07. | |
unlock it before pressing the buttons. At the point it has been | :20:08. | :20:11. | |
activated it will send an alert with your location to the emergency | :20:12. | :20:14. | |
services, and also, not just your contacts of choice, at the contact | :20:15. | :20:18. | |
closest to you at that point. It will also send an alert to other | :20:19. | :20:22. | |
people who are on the platform, who are nearby at that time. Who, | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
hopefully, will have phone signal and internet connection in your | :20:27. | :20:33. | |
seconds of need. An alert can also be activated through a smart watch, | :20:34. | :20:36. | |
by simply using a SafeWord. Asparagus! We have got several | :20:37. | :20:43. | |
ambitions for the future. One is that when you see somebody needs | :20:44. | :20:46. | |
your help, on your phone, as you arrive close to where they are, the | :20:47. | :20:50. | |
map on your mobile phone will dissolve and your camera will turn | :20:51. | :20:54. | |
on, so you will start filming of the incident, where you are, and will be | :20:55. | :20:59. | |
streaming back to the police. Another short-term ambition for ICE | :21:00. | :21:03. | |
is that we want to make this as common as possible, because the more | :21:04. | :21:07. | |
people that have it, the more people can come to your rescue. So, for us, | :21:08. | :21:12. | |
we are driven by how cheaply can make this, or make it free, so that | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
we can put it in as many people's hands as possible. The most recent | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
figures for England and Wales suggest adults have a one in 33 | :21:21. | :21:24. | |
chance each year of being the victim of a violent crime. But despite the | :21:25. | :21:29. | |
fact you are on likely to ever need to use a gadget like this, just | :21:30. | :21:34. | |
knowing it is they may give you that extra peace of mind. If you are | :21:35. | :21:38. | |
walking home alone or going out on a date and you want to feel that | :21:39. | :21:42. | |
someone who cares about you is watching over you, well, the "Follow | :21:43. | :21:46. | |
me" function on the React app could come in handy. They will be alerted | :21:47. | :21:52. | |
to keep an eye on you and track your GPS location for your chosen | :21:53. | :21:55. | |
duration. Hopefully they will not be a problem, and once you have arrived | :21:56. | :21:59. | |
at your destination they will be able to see where you are, fast you | :22:00. | :22:03. | |
can actually tell them that you are fine. Alerts to contact your | :22:04. | :22:06. | |
friends, family or even the emergency services can also be | :22:07. | :22:10. | |
activated at any time by pressing this red button on the app, all this | :22:11. | :22:15. | |
physical button. This is called the Reaction Sidekick, and sinks with | :22:16. | :22:20. | |
the app. On first testing it seemed picky glitchy, but then it became | :22:21. | :22:23. | |
apparent I needed to have the settings right, which were not | :22:24. | :22:27. | |
obvious. You must accept the option to track your location even when not | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
using the app, and you also need to make sure that your chosen contacts | :22:33. | :22:35. | |
are stored with their international dialling code. So with this, and | :22:36. | :22:40. | |
indeed all these devices, it is probably wise to do a test run | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
before you start relying on them. While these products may all have | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
their unique talents, some of the technology is actually pretty | :22:50. | :22:53. | |
simple, as in, just a button that connects to your smartphone. Click | :22:54. | :23:01. | |
is a customisable smart button. Connected to iPhone and you choose | :23:02. | :23:07. | |
the function for a single click, a double-click or a hold of the | :23:08. | :23:10. | |
physical button. You can take selfies, change the lighting, or | :23:11. | :23:14. | |
even turn it into a personal safety device. From there, it can send | :23:15. | :23:18. | |
alerts with GPS location to your chosen contacts. Last the devices | :23:19. | :23:23. | |
may do what they say on the tin, they are still only as good as the | :23:24. | :23:27. | |
discipline you have been keeping them charged up and to hand, in case | :23:28. | :23:35. | |
they do ever need to be called upon. Now, just before we leave you for | :23:36. | :23:39. | |
this week, we have something very exciting to tell you about. On the | :23:40. | :23:44. | |
14th of November we are going to be recording a very special episode of | :23:45. | :23:48. | |
Click in front of a live studio audience. It is going to be at the | :23:49. | :23:53. | |
BBC's radio Theatre in London, and as you would expect, it will be | :23:54. | :23:56. | |
filmed with amazing guests and amazing technology. If you would | :23:57. | :24:00. | |
like to be in the audience, then here is the link you need. That is | :24:01. | :24:06. | |
where you can apply for tickets. We are really looking forward to it and | :24:07. | :24:10. | |
we would love to see you there. In the meantime you can follow us on | :24:11. | :24:14. | |
Twitter. That is it from Somerset Houseful stop thank you for | :24:15. | :24:15. | |
watching, and we will see you soon. | :24:16. | :24:32. |