0:00:00 > 0:00:04That's it from me. Duncan will be here at 2am.
0:00:04 > 0:00:08Now on BBC News, Click.
0:00:08 > 0:00:22This week, robo cops, accessible togs and surgery goggles.
0:00:39 > 0:00:45Welcome to give by, the desert kingdom where there is no such thing
0:00:45 > 0:00:50as too much cash to buy. This city has spent more than a decade making
0:00:50 > 0:00:55a name for itself for the outrageous buildings it's created. But now it
0:00:55 > 0:01:00seems it wants to be known for technology too. A while ago I paid
0:01:00 > 0:01:06it a visit during its Drones for Good challenge and met some of the
0:01:06 > 0:01:10local innovators who Dubai hopes will contribute to its new tech
0:01:10 > 0:01:14power image. But groans aren't the only thing is taking to the skies.
0:01:14 > 0:01:19This hover bike designed for the police force may one day be whizzing
0:01:19 > 0:01:24police officers to the scene of a crime. Copper chopper anyone?The
0:01:24 > 0:01:32officers can be using the hover bikes across the city to provide a
0:01:32 > 0:01:38service and a fast response.And these weren't the only high-tech
0:01:38 > 0:01:43additions to the force. Back in May the Dubai police got some new
0:01:43 > 0:01:47recruits and these weren't your ordinary newcomers, and these guys
0:01:47 > 0:01:51were made of the hard stuff, and Kate Russell went to meet them.
0:01:55 > 0:02:01Like so much of Dubai's over the top ambition, the police force wants to
0:02:01 > 0:02:04be seen to be using the latest crime prediction and surveillance
0:02:04 > 0:02:13technology to watch over the people. We have our cameras, our drones,
0:02:13 > 0:02:17our... We are going into a science-fiction movie.
0:02:17 > 0:02:21Artificial intelligence based predictive crime systems, autonomous
0:02:21 > 0:02:26patrol vehicles and unmanned police stations are just a few of their
0:02:26 > 0:02:30futuristic initiatives.I am a humanoid service robot...Plan to be
0:02:30 > 0:02:34God in all of Dubai's neighbourhoods are the world's first smart police
0:02:34 > 0:02:39stations which will be completely unstaffed. Citizens can pot in for a
0:02:39 > 0:02:44safe driving lesson, a quick coffee or even to report crimes. They can
0:02:44 > 0:02:53meet Dubai's own Robocop. But unlike the movies... Hello... He will kill
0:02:53 > 0:02:59you with kindness.You have really pretty eyes.I think I'm getting hit
0:02:59 > 0:03:04on by a robot! Do you think I'm beautiful?Yes. I love talking with
0:03:04 > 0:03:14you.Thank you.You are absolutely astoundingly gorgeous. It's the most
0:03:14 > 0:03:20interesting thing about you. Myer sensors detect the paparazzi among
0:03:20 > 0:03:27us. Guess who it is? It's him. Flirting aside, the head
0:03:27 > 0:03:32of artificial intelligence for Dubai police seize the future with AI and
0:03:32 > 0:03:36Robotics very much at its heart. Behind it is the artificial
0:03:36 > 0:03:42intelligence, so it can see you, it has facial recognition so it can
0:03:42 > 0:03:46identify the person and sent all the live feeding to the command and
0:03:46 > 0:03:51control system. We have a project for what we called the Dubai Eye
0:03:51 > 0:03:56where we have integrated all the CCTV cameras across the city and on
0:03:56 > 0:04:02top of that we're going to build smart system where it has facial
0:04:02 > 0:04:05recognition. It's so difficult to monitor more than 10,000 cameras in
0:04:05 > 0:04:12the city, so we have a system where it can analyse live feeds from those
0:04:12 > 0:04:20cameras and it can also predict all kinds of activities, especially the
0:04:20 > 0:04:24ones of people.Although this unmanned facility currently still
0:04:24 > 0:04:27needs a human on conference call when it comes to reporting a crime.
0:04:27 > 0:04:34I would like report a crime. There is a robot here and he's stolen my
0:04:34 > 0:04:45heart.He's stolen your heart?My heart.Your heart? !
0:04:48 > 0:04:54We've recently seen Chicago PD's crime predicting algorithms and now
0:04:54 > 0:04:59Dubai's police are turning their focus to preventing crimes before
0:04:59 > 0:05:04they even happen.This application analyses crime and tries to predict
0:05:04 > 0:05:10where and when the next crime will happen in the future.Another one of
0:05:10 > 0:05:13the smart services offered to citizens in Dubai is the ability to
0:05:13 > 0:05:18register if you have a history of cardiovascular problems. You can see
0:05:18 > 0:05:22on the map there represented by hearts. This means that when an
0:05:22 > 0:05:25ambulance is called it will instantly know that it could be
0:05:25 > 0:05:29attending a heart attack victim man they say that this has allowed them
0:05:29 > 0:05:35to reduce the number of fatalities by more than 50%.
0:05:35 > 0:05:38That's an impressive statistic, but is this widespread surveillance
0:05:38 > 0:05:44reminding anyone else of a certain sci-fi film?People are going to
0:05:44 > 0:05:48equate this to Minority Report, what on protocols do you have in place to
0:05:48 > 0:05:53make the data issues and ethical issues raised in the future? We
0:05:53 > 0:05:57don't predict who will commit a crime, we predict where it will
0:05:57 > 0:06:02happen and how it will happen. With one in three crimes being
0:06:02 > 0:06:06successfully predicted this time last year, the benefits of using
0:06:06 > 0:06:09artificial intelligence are, well, predictable.
0:06:16 > 0:06:21What's more surprising is that the drone team here in Dubai would like
0:06:21 > 0:06:27to see it taken even further. They believe they can use drones to spot
0:06:27 > 0:06:31a potential criminal by analysing a person's vital signs.
0:06:59 > 0:07:05Like so many of Dubai's big plans, all this stuff seems to have one
0:07:05 > 0:07:10foot in ambitious reality and the other in well-intentioned fantasy.
0:07:10 > 0:07:14It's a place worth keeping an eye on, though, and you can be very sure
0:07:14 > 0:07:17they'll be keeping an eye on us.
0:07:19 > 0:07:25Now, we've all been hearing about the dangerous effects of Knox, the
0:07:25 > 0:07:30nitrogen oxide that spewed out by diesel cars, and we do now know that
0:07:30 > 0:07:35some big car manufacturers have been lying to us for years about how much
0:07:35 > 0:07:39pollution their cars and surely produce. It's a subject that was
0:07:39 > 0:07:44back in the limelight last week when a new Netflix documentary reminded
0:07:44 > 0:07:49us all about the length VW went to cover up its reading of emissions
0:07:49 > 0:07:53tests, that included commissioning a study that subjected monkeys to
0:07:53 > 0:07:58diesel fumes to try to improve their vehicles' rink and ensures.
0:07:58 > 0:08:01It's since been revealed humans were also deliberately exposed to toxic
0:08:01 > 0:08:11exhausts. -- green credentials. TRANSLATION:I condemn the emissions
0:08:11 > 0:08:16tests on animals and people, which were, according to available
0:08:16 > 0:08:19information, co-ordinated by the automotive industry. I don't have
0:08:19 > 0:08:24any sympathies for this, these tests were apparently solely aimed for PR
0:08:24 > 0:08:29purposes of the car industry and we're not going to accept this.
0:08:32 > 0:08:35As the German government and the manufacturers involved tried to
0:08:35 > 0:08:40distance themselves from the toxic study, we all have to live with the
0:08:40 > 0:08:45diesel cars already on our roads. But Kat Hawkins has been looking at
0:08:45 > 0:08:49Suntech that might help us to produce less of the killer fumes.
0:08:51 > 0:08:55I'm driving around central London with Lincoln drop. But instead of
0:08:55 > 0:08:59sitting back and enjoying being credible city skyline is, I can't
0:08:59 > 0:09:03quite rest easy because the app we're using for navigation is also
0:09:03 > 0:09:08telling us how much nitrous oxide and carbon dioxide our car is
0:09:08 > 0:09:14spitting out in the real-time. It's called air.com and Lincoln is part
0:09:14 > 0:09:19of the team behind it.Knox is a silent killer, it's far worse than
0:09:19 > 0:09:23CO2 and everything we can do in order to reduce the amount of Knox
0:09:23 > 0:09:29people it into the air is good for the nation's health, good for the
0:09:29 > 0:09:33environment and we think we can help people to reduce the amount of
0:09:33 > 0:09:39knocks they produce as they drive. The app works by plugging in a small
0:09:39 > 0:09:43diagnostics device into the car. This takes data points from the
0:09:43 > 0:09:47engine and runs algorithms that have been designed by scientists at
0:09:47 > 0:09:51Imperial College London. What we're looking at here is essentially an
0:09:51 > 0:09:56engine you would find in a car? That's right. It's a relatively old
0:09:56 > 0:10:00diesel engine by today's standards but it's been updated with a lot of
0:10:00 > 0:10:04technology to measure what's going on in detail, so we have lots of
0:10:04 > 0:10:09sensors dotted around the engine. And it's got this external unit
0:10:09 > 0:10:14here, which you would never find on a car, and that's to modify the
0:10:14 > 0:10:19turbo boost pressure. What we're doing in the calculation algorithms
0:10:19 > 0:10:24is taking a whole load of engine data and using machine learning
0:10:24 > 0:10:31techniques to understand and be able to calculate what the NOx emissions
0:10:31 > 0:10:35would be.This comes at an important time for the streets of London, with
0:10:35 > 0:10:40decisions being made at City Hall to try to combat how much pollution the
0:10:40 > 0:10:45once named Big Smoke produces, and cars, said to be responsible for a
0:10:45 > 0:10:50quarter of global energy-related carbon emissions, are the target.
0:10:50 > 0:10:54Last October the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan brought in a new charge
0:10:54 > 0:10:57that means more polluting vehicles now have to pay twice the amount to
0:10:57 > 0:11:01drive in central London. This means cars registered before 2006 or fall
0:11:01 > 0:11:06below the minimum carbon emissions star gets now have to pay £10 to
0:11:06 > 0:11:11drive into that congestion zone, and that's on top of the £11 50 already
0:11:11 > 0:11:17in place. This piece of tech could be a fairer system for drivers.I
0:11:17 > 0:11:22always think... My daughter, when she was growing up she had to go to
0:11:22 > 0:11:25Great Ormond Street Hospital on a number of occasions, it was a number
0:11:25 > 0:11:29of repeat visits and it was right in the centre of London and we had to
0:11:29 > 0:11:35drive. There was no alternative solution that we could have taken. I
0:11:35 > 0:11:38think people who behave like that should have the opportunity for
0:11:38 > 0:11:45paying less.They think this is the future. Drivers being encouraged to
0:11:45 > 0:11:48drive more efficiently by being given financial incentives for doing
0:11:48 > 0:11:52so. This could be done by changing gears at the right time or actively
0:11:52 > 0:11:57not driving in sensitive areas, such as near hospitals or schools. And at
0:11:57 > 0:12:01the moment they're using the data collected from the tests done at
0:12:01 > 0:12:05Imperial to come up with an estimate of how a charging system could work.
0:12:05 > 0:12:09Lincoln's shown us today that he's a very considerate driver who actually
0:12:09 > 0:12:14thinks about the night was oxide his car's producing, but he did read the
0:12:14 > 0:12:18engine a couple of times just to show us how the technology works and
0:12:18 > 0:12:24what happened now is he has a charge of around £5. It said a lot less
0:12:24 > 0:12:30than the £10 would be. Still £5 when he leaves the congestion zone today.
0:12:30 > 0:12:34As governments grapple with lowering emissions and creating cleaner
0:12:34 > 0:12:38streets, it will be at slight air.car that will be able to
0:12:38 > 0:12:41capitalise on the decisions being made.
0:12:44 > 0:12:48Hello and welcome to the week in tech. It was the week that Facebook
0:12:48 > 0:12:52announced its banning all ads for crypto currency. The word ransomware
0:12:52 > 0:12:58has been added to the Oxford English dictionary. And Amazon has patented
0:12:58 > 0:13:04a wristband that could keep track of workers' movements. It'll also
0:13:04 > 0:13:09provide haptic feedback to alert the wearer when they're reaching for the
0:13:09 > 0:13:16wrong inventory bin. Meanwhile fitness tracker map Strava has
0:13:16 > 0:13:20caused alerts. Military personnel around the world has been sharing
0:13:20 > 0:13:24their exercise routines on them, inadvertently highlighting foreign
0:13:24 > 0:13:29military bases in countries such as Syria and Afghanistan. And ten
0:13:29 > 0:13:33months after its release the Nintendo switch has already outsold
0:13:33 > 0:13:38its predecessor the Wii U, a sign of relief all Nintendo I'm sure as the
0:13:38 > 0:13:42Wii U was considered a commercial failure and discontinued. Engineers
0:13:42 > 0:13:46at Caltech have built a fully autonomous robot that mimics a bat
0:13:46 > 0:13:52in-flight. It has a new flexible wing design that apparently makes it
0:13:52 > 0:13:57more energy-efficient than other flying robots. And finally, Elon
0:13:57 > 0:14:04Musk's boring company unveiled a flamethrower. At $500 is the perfect
0:14:04 > 0:14:08weapon for a zombie apocalypse. Great idea or will it go up in
0:14:08 > 0:14:08flames?
0:14:16 > 0:14:20Now, Fashion Week season is upon us. New York next week will kickstart
0:14:20 > 0:14:27the most important month in the calendar of the fashionista, as I
0:14:27 > 0:14:31well know. But there is a group of people who do not see themselves
0:14:31 > 0:14:35reflected, people with disabilities. London Fashion Week last year made
0:14:35 > 0:14:40some progress went to disabled models opened the show for one of
0:14:40 > 0:14:45the designers. Now a New York fashion school is hoping to continue
0:14:45 > 0:14:50bike into -- combining tact and fashion by designing bespoke clothes
0:14:50 > 0:14:54for people with disabilities. Paul Carter visited them. Buying close is
0:14:54 > 0:14:59something most people take the granted. You like it, you try Tony,
0:14:59 > 0:15:04you buy it. But what if your choice is a much more limited because of an
0:15:04 > 0:15:08impairment or disability. I have come to a fashion lab here in New
0:15:08 > 0:15:17York were using tech to make fashion more accessible. Open Style Lab was
0:15:17 > 0:15:19established to make clothing for disabled people which was both
0:15:19 > 0:15:26functional and fashionable. Operating in part to ship with
0:15:26 > 0:15:31Parsons School of Design, they have combined with many to solve these
0:15:31 > 0:15:36problems.Our goal is to make style accessible for people with many
0:15:36 > 0:15:44abilities. Disability, injury or facing ageing. By 2025, through
0:15:44 > 0:15:49design and technology.A year ago I was looking for a code I could put
0:15:49 > 0:15:54on without the use of my arms. Seven years ago, my arms became paralysed
0:15:54 > 0:15:59and I needed a New York winter coat. I was one of the participants in
0:15:59 > 0:16:04Open Style Lab or a semester and I fell and of the permit and became a
0:16:04 > 0:16:10board member this year.The team has action -- access to a wide range of
0:16:10 > 0:16:13tech to assist in the design process in the design process and the
0:16:13 > 0:16:17clothing they create. I went to meet some of the people end of this
0:16:17 > 0:16:25fashion innovation.I am an adult survivor of paediatric cancer and it
0:16:25 > 0:16:30used to be called a core domain amputation I think, they take part
0:16:30 > 0:16:36of your arm, a bit of the collarbone. They are designing a
0:16:36 > 0:16:45bag, I guess, that doesn't carry exactly like a backpack and that
0:16:45 > 0:16:51doesn't destroy my shoulder.Jason Da silver has multiple sclerosis and
0:16:51 > 0:16:56difficulties with speech. It is designed team are creating a shirt
0:16:56 > 0:17:00with integrated microphone and loudspeaker to amplify his voice.
0:17:00 > 0:17:04They are creating a sensor systems so I can talk louder than I would
0:17:04 > 0:17:13normally. It's a speaker system for people to use. It's pretty savvy,
0:17:13 > 0:17:17actually. Integrating it into... Into my wheelchair. There is going
0:17:17 > 0:17:23to be a headset or somebody just to speak with me.He has an armrest
0:17:23 > 0:17:27with space on it. He has the Crown surrounding his head. It might be
0:17:27 > 0:17:33that is where it is placed. We are looking at options for wearables
0:17:33 > 0:17:38extending from the body.An emerging area in fashion design being
0:17:38 > 0:17:41utilised by Open Style Lab is conductive fabric. This is material
0:17:41 > 0:17:46which can be stitched into clothing to create working circuits and
0:17:46 > 0:17:51garments. Allowing switches in clothing which can be used to
0:17:51 > 0:17:56operate inbuilt items like lights, heaters and electric motors.This
0:17:56 > 0:18:01one, I haven't moved it on but what it's doing is using a
0:18:01 > 0:18:05microcontroller chip and I've asked it to do the same thing, the
0:18:05 > 0:18:10conductive fabric inside, so when you touch one of the pockets, it
0:18:10 > 0:18:15will send a signal and I did it for the microcontroller to send a signal
0:18:15 > 0:18:19if it is left or right and these are some of the Pope -- prototypes which
0:18:19 > 0:18:23were made a woman with breast cancer to see the range of motion so this
0:18:23 > 0:18:27is one of my first iterations of putting on the chip and using
0:18:27 > 0:18:31conductive thread is to figure out how the circuit moves inside a
0:18:31 > 0:18:36garment.Completed projects created by Open Style Lab in the past
0:18:36 > 0:18:40include a waterproof jacket shaped to fit a wheelchair user and a
0:18:40 > 0:18:44seamless top for a young girl hypersensitive to stitching because
0:18:44 > 0:18:49of autism. The work shows what can be done when technology and lateral
0:18:49 > 0:18:53thinking me to social need. With a bit of luck, fashion of the future
0:18:53 > 0:19:02will all be designed with this much style. The trend the home monitoring
0:19:02 > 0:19:07devices to help us feel safe as houses has evolved over the past
0:19:07 > 0:19:12couple of years. We have seen them upping their game, adding facial
0:19:12 > 0:19:16recognition and customised alerts but I've met a company adding
0:19:16 > 0:19:21artificial at -- intelligence to the mix. Each house member represented
0:19:21 > 0:19:26by one of these stick people, more hi-tech than usual, their body
0:19:26 > 0:19:30proportions and skin colour, the way they walk, all of those factors
0:19:30 > 0:19:35built in to differentiating them from everyone else. Mostly they will
0:19:35 > 0:19:39be carrying out similar activities. They will become the normal things
0:19:39 > 0:19:43for them to do so anything out of the ordinary, that is when the alert
0:19:43 > 0:19:48will start. Like when an elderly relative falls or that well-known
0:19:48 > 0:19:57issue of when someone trips over the dog. Cherry Home aims to track
0:19:57 > 0:20:01people and pets movements. Also employing artificial intelligence to
0:20:01 > 0:20:07interpret that data into information on what anyone is doing at any given
0:20:07 > 0:20:12time. Sound creepy? With alerts like this, some might think so the Deacon
0:20:12 > 0:20:16Taylor the notifications as you see fit. The homeowner can then select
0:20:16 > 0:20:21who is going to receive the alerts through the app. There is a choice
0:20:21 > 0:20:26as to whether you want to be able to see this video movement or see it in
0:20:26 > 0:20:30some rooms are not others or whether you only want to receive an alert
0:20:30 > 0:20:36when something has happened. But is this really what people want?We
0:20:36 > 0:20:40initially provide a lot of information but it ended when we
0:20:40 > 0:20:47lost one of our test customers. They didn't want to continue after we
0:20:47 > 0:20:51told the husband something about the wife or vice-versa so we learned the
0:20:51 > 0:20:58hard way that it is a bad idea to get into the couple 's relations. So
0:20:58 > 0:21:03instead of helping husbands care about wives or wives care about
0:21:03 > 0:21:09husbands, we help both of them care about who they normally care, like
0:21:09 > 0:21:14kids, pets and parents.So if this software can identify people and
0:21:14 > 0:21:17what they are doing, then it could prove useful for controlling the
0:21:17 > 0:21:22Smart home. To start with, though, checking all is well in your house
0:21:22 > 0:21:34but not spying on your partner seems to be a reasonable place to start.
0:21:34 > 0:21:39This now, recently we have seen a couple of interesting ideas on
0:21:39 > 0:21:43medical visualisation is. One was a pill sized sensor which can be
0:21:43 > 0:21:48swallowed and gives real-time information on the gas content of
0:21:48 > 0:21:53your digestive system. Excuse me. Two years ago I watched the world's
0:21:53 > 0:21:58first VR surgery were medical students are invited to observe the
0:21:58 > 0:22:02operation in action. The main selling point of this in mercy of
0:22:02 > 0:22:06virtual reality is it puts you into places you would rarely get to
0:22:06 > 0:22:10experience.Unless you are scrubbed in, you are not touching the
0:22:10 > 0:22:16patients. In another room, looking over the surgeon's shoulder but with
0:22:16 > 0:22:20this, you are looking on top of the patient and seeing what the surgeon
0:22:20 > 0:22:31is doing.Since then, surgeon in charge Shafi Ahmed has moved on to
0:22:31 > 0:22:35the new lens. The data from the patient's scans is also overlaid,
0:22:35 > 0:22:39allowing them to consult on the operation. Research is at Imperial
0:22:39 > 0:22:46College London are looking at the VR, to enhance the surgeon's ability
0:22:46 > 0:22:51to visualise some of the hard to perform operations. The team used
0:22:51 > 0:22:56medical scan results to create visualisation is of bones and blood
0:22:56 > 0:23:00vessels and muscles. Surgeons with headsets can see the schedules
0:23:00 > 0:23:05overlaid on the patients in the theatre.The first time I used this,
0:23:05 > 0:23:09it blew me a rave. It's an extraordinary new way of seeing the
0:23:09 > 0:23:14world around you and interacting with it. We were acutely aware of
0:23:14 > 0:23:18wearing a headset. It's a heavy device for a long period so some of
0:23:18 > 0:23:22the feedback, maybe it's just selected components of the surgery.
0:23:22 > 0:23:27Not all the time. There might be that one moment where you need that
0:23:27 > 0:23:31level of precision.At the moment it is still being trialled in research
0:23:31 > 0:23:36hospitals. The hope is this sort of visualisation Tech will improve
0:23:36 > 0:23:43overall position and recovery time. There is always a lot of initial
0:23:43 > 0:23:46excitement about this technology but what we need to show is that it
0:23:46 > 0:23:53saves time, it gives better patient outcomes and ultimately is something
0:23:53 > 0:23:57we cannot just do in specialist centres but we can roll out to other
0:23:57 > 0:24:02hospitals.And you can check out our website on Facebook page for more
0:24:02 > 0:24:10short films on a new tack. That's it from us by now. Don't forget, we
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0:24:20 > 0:24:24Thanks for watching and we will see you soon.