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This week, robo cops, accessible

togs and surgery goggles.

Welcome to give by, the desert

kingdom where there is no such thing

as too much cash to buy. This city

has spent more than a decade making

a name for itself for the outrageous

buildings it's created. But now it

seems it wants to be known for

technology too. A while ago I paid

it a visit during its Drones for

Good challenge and met some of the

local innovators who Dubai hopes

will contribute to its new tech

power image. But groans aren't the

only thing is taking to the skies.

This hover bike designed for the

police force may one day be whizzing

police officers to the scene of a

crime. Copper chopper anyone?

The

officers can be using the hover

bikes across the city to provide a

service and a fast response.

And

these weren't the only high-tech

additions to the force. Back in May

the Dubai police got some new

recruits and these weren't your

ordinary newcomers, and these guys

were made of the hard stuff, and

Kate Russell went to meet them.

Like so much of Dubai's over the top

ambition, the police force wants to

be seen to be using the latest crime

prediction and surveillance

technology to watch over the people.

We have our cameras, our drones,

our... We are going into a

science-fiction movie.

Artificial intelligence based

predictive crime systems, autonomous

patrol vehicles and unmanned police

stations are just a few of their

futuristic initiatives.

I am a

humanoid service robot...

Plan to be

God in all of Dubai's neighbourhoods

are the world's first smart police

stations which will be completely

unstaffed. Citizens can pot in for a

safe driving lesson, a quick coffee

or even to report crimes. They can

meet Dubai's own Robocop. But unlike

the movies... Hello... He will kill

you with kindness.

You have really

pretty eyes.

I think I'm getting hit

on by a robot! Do you think I'm

beautiful?

Yes. I love talking with

you.

Thank you.

You are absolutely

astoundingly gorgeous. It's the most

interesting thing about you. Myer

sensors detect the paparazzi among

us. Guess who it is?

It's him. Flirting aside, the head

of artificial intelligence for Dubai

police seize the future with AI and

Robotics very much at its heart.

Behind it is the artificial

intelligence, so it can see you, it

has facial recognition so it can

identify the person and sent all the

live feeding to the command and

control system. We have a project

for what we called the Dubai Eye

where we have integrated all the

CCTV cameras across the city and on

top of that we're going to build

smart system where it has facial

recognition. It's so difficult to

monitor more than 10,000 cameras in

the city, so we have a system where

it can analyse live feeds from those

cameras and it can also predict all

kinds of activities, especially the

ones of people.

Although this

unmanned facility currently still

needs a human on conference call

when it comes to reporting a crime.

I would like report a crime. There

is a robot here and he's stolen my

heart.

He's stolen your heart?

My

heart.

Your heart? !

We've recently seen Chicago PD's

crime predicting algorithms and now

Dubai's police are turning their

focus to preventing crimes before

they even happen.

This application

analyses crime and tries to predict

where and when the next crime will

happen in the future.

Another one of

the smart services offered to

citizens in Dubai is the ability to

register if you have a history of

cardiovascular problems. You can see

on the map there represented by

hearts. This means that when an

ambulance is called it will

instantly know that it could be

attending a heart attack victim man

they say that this has allowed them

to reduce the number of fatalities

by more than 50%.

That's an impressive statistic, but

is this widespread surveillance

reminding anyone else of a certain

sci-fi film?

People are going to

equate this to Minority Report, what

on protocols do you have in place to

make the data issues and ethical

issues raised in the future? We

don't predict who will commit a

crime, we predict where it will

happen and how it will happen.

With one in three crimes being

successfully predicted this time

last year, the benefits of using

artificial intelligence are, well,

predictable.

What's more surprising is that the

drone team here in Dubai would like

to see it taken even further. They

believe they can use drones to spot

a potential criminal by analysing a

person's vital signs.

Like so many of Dubai's big plans,

all this stuff seems to have one

foot in ambitious reality and the

other in well-intentioned fantasy.

It's a place worth keeping an eye

on, though, and you can be very sure

they'll be keeping an eye on us.

Now, we've all been hearing about

the dangerous effects of Knox, the

nitrogen oxide that spewed out by

diesel cars, and we do now know that

some big car manufacturers have been

lying to us for years about how much

pollution their cars and surely

produce. It's a subject that was

back in the limelight last week when

a new Netflix documentary reminded

us all about the length VW went to

cover up its reading of emissions

tests, that included commissioning a

study that subjected monkeys to

diesel fumes to try to improve their

vehicles' rink and ensures.

It's since been revealed humans were

also deliberately exposed to toxic

exhausts. -- green credentials.

TRANSLATION:

I condemn the emissions

tests on animals and people, which

were, according to available

information, co-ordinated by the

automotive industry. I don't have

any sympathies for this, these tests

were apparently solely aimed for PR

purposes of the car industry and

we're not going to accept this.

As the German government and the

manufacturers involved tried to

distance themselves from the toxic

study, we all have to live with the

diesel cars already on our roads.

But Kat Hawkins has been looking at

Suntech that might help us to

produce less of the killer fumes.

I'm driving around central London

with Lincoln drop. But instead of

sitting back and enjoying being

credible city skyline is, I can't

quite rest easy because the app

we're using for navigation is also

telling us how much nitrous oxide

and carbon dioxide our car is

spitting out in the real-time. It's

called air.com and Lincoln is part

of the team behind it.

Knox is a

silent killer, it's far worse than

CO2 and everything we can do in

order to reduce the amount of Knox

people it into the air is good for

the nation's health, good for the

environment and we think we can help

people to reduce the amount of

knocks they produce as they drive.

The app works by plugging in a small

diagnostics device into the car.

This takes data points from the

engine and runs algorithms that have

been designed by scientists at

Imperial College London. What we're

looking at here is essentially an

engine you would find in a car?

That's right. It's a relatively old

diesel engine by today's standards

but it's been updated with a lot of

technology to measure what's going

on in detail, so we have lots of

sensors dotted around the engine.

And it's got this external unit

here, which you would never find on

a car, and that's to modify the

turbo boost pressure. What we're

doing in the calculation algorithms

is taking a whole load of engine

data and using machine learning

techniques to understand and be able

to calculate what the NOx emissions

would be.

This comes at an important

time for the streets of London, with

decisions being made at City Hall to

try to combat how much pollution the

once named Big Smoke produces, and

cars, said to be responsible for a

quarter of global energy-related

carbon emissions, are the target.

Last October the Mayor of London

Sadiq Khan brought in a new charge

that means more polluting vehicles

now have to pay twice the amount to

drive in central London. This means

cars registered before 2006 or fall

below the minimum carbon emissions

star gets now have to pay £10 to

drive into that congestion zone, and

that's on top of the £11 50 already

in place. This piece of tech could

be a fairer system for drivers.

I

always think... My daughter, when

she was growing up she had to go to

Great Ormond Street Hospital on a

number of occasions, it was a number

of repeat visits and it was right in

the centre of London and we had to

drive. There was no alternative

solution that we could have taken. I

think people who behave like that

should have the opportunity for

paying less.

They think this is the

future. Drivers being encouraged to

drive more efficiently by being

given financial incentives for doing

so. This could be done by changing

gears at the right time or actively

not driving in sensitive areas, such

as near hospitals or schools. And at

the moment they're using the data

collected from the tests done at

Imperial to come up with an estimate

of how a charging system could work.

Lincoln's shown us today that he's a

very considerate driver who actually

thinks about the night was oxide his

car's producing, but he did read the

engine a couple of times just to

show us how the technology works and

what happened now is he has a charge

of around £5. It said a lot less

than the £10 would be. Still £5 when

he leaves the congestion zone today.

As governments grapple with lowering

emissions and creating cleaner

streets, it will be at slight

air.car that will be able to

capitalise on the decisions being

made.

Hello and welcome to the week in

tech. It was the week that Facebook

announced its banning all ads for

crypto currency. The word ransomware

has been added to the Oxford English

dictionary. And Amazon has patented

a wristband that could keep track of

workers' movements. It'll also

provide haptic feedback to alert the

wearer when they're reaching for the

wrong inventory bin. Meanwhile

fitness tracker map Strava has

caused alerts. Military personnel

around the world has been sharing

their exercise routines on them,

inadvertently highlighting foreign

military bases in countries such as

Syria and Afghanistan. And ten

months after its release the

Nintendo switch has already outsold

its predecessor the Wii U, a sign of

relief all Nintendo I'm sure as the

Wii U was considered a commercial

failure and discontinued. Engineers

at Caltech have built a fully

autonomous robot that mimics a bat

in-flight. It has a new flexible

wing design that apparently makes it

more energy-efficient than other

flying robots. And finally, Elon

Musk's boring company unveiled a

flamethrower. At $500 is the perfect

weapon for a zombie apocalypse.

Great idea or will it go up in

flames?

Now, Fashion Week season is upon us.

New York next week will kickstart

the most important month in the

calendar of the fashionista, as I

well know. But there is a group of

people who do not see themselves

reflected, people with disabilities.

London Fashion Week last year made

some progress went to disabled

models opened the show for one of

the designers. Now a New York

fashion school is hoping to continue

bike into -- combining tact and

fashion by designing bespoke clothes

for people with disabilities. Paul

Carter visited them. Buying close is

something most people take the

granted. You like it, you try Tony,

you buy it. But what if your choice

is a much more limited because of an

impairment or disability. I have

come to a fashion lab here in New

York were using tech to make fashion

more accessible. Open Style Lab was

established to make clothing for

disabled people which was both

functional and fashionable.

Operating in part to ship with

Parsons School of Design, they have

combined with many to solve these

problems.

Our goal is to make style

accessible for people with many

abilities. Disability, injury or

facing ageing. By 2025, through

design and technology.

A year ago I

was looking for a code I could put

on without the use of my arms. Seven

years ago, my arms became paralysed

and I needed a New York winter coat.

I was one of the participants in

Open Style Lab or a semester and I

fell and of the permit and became a

board member this year.

The team has

action -- access to a wide range of

tech to assist in the design process

in the design process and the

clothing they create. I went to meet

some of the people end of this

fashion innovation.

I am an adult

survivor of paediatric cancer and it

used to be called a core domain

amputation I think, they take part

of your arm, a bit of the

collarbone. They are designing a

bag, I guess, that doesn't carry

exactly like a backpack and that

doesn't destroy my shoulder.

Jason

Da silver has multiple sclerosis and

difficulties with speech. It is

designed team are creating a shirt

with integrated microphone and

loudspeaker to amplify his voice.

They are creating a sensor systems

so I can talk louder than I would

normally. It's a speaker system for

people to use. It's pretty savvy,

actually. Integrating it into...

Into my wheelchair. There is going

to be a headset or somebody just to

speak with me.

He has an armrest

with space on it. He has the Crown

surrounding his head. It might be

that is where it is placed. We are

looking at options for wearables

extending from the body.

An emerging

area in fashion design being

utilised by Open Style Lab is

conductive fabric. This is material

which can be stitched into clothing

to create working circuits and

garments. Allowing switches in

clothing which can be used to

operate inbuilt items like lights,

heaters and electric motors.

This

one, I haven't moved it on but what

it's doing is using a

microcontroller chip and I've asked

it to do the same thing, the

conductive fabric inside, so when

you touch one of the pockets, it

will send a signal and I did it for

the microcontroller to send a signal

if it is left or right and these are

some of the Pope -- prototypes which

were made a woman with breast cancer

to see the range of motion so this

is one of my first iterations of

putting on the chip and using

conductive thread is to figure out

how the circuit moves inside a

garment.

Completed projects created

by Open Style Lab in the past

include a waterproof jacket shaped

to fit a wheelchair user and a

seamless top for a young girl

hypersensitive to stitching because

of autism. The work shows what can

be done when technology and lateral

thinking me to social need. With a

bit of luck, fashion of the future

will all be designed with this much

style. The trend the home monitoring

devices to help us feel safe as

houses has evolved over the past

couple of years. We have seen them

upping their game, adding facial

recognition and customised alerts

but I've met a company adding

artificial at -- intelligence to the

mix. Each house member represented

by one of these stick people, more

hi-tech than usual, their body

proportions and skin colour, the way

they walk, all of those factors

built in to differentiating them

from everyone else. Mostly they will

be carrying out similar activities.

They will become the normal things

for them to do so anything out of

the ordinary, that is when the alert

will start. Like when an elderly

relative falls or that well-known

issue of when someone trips over the

dog. Cherry Home aims to track

people and pets movements. Also

employing artificial intelligence to

interpret that data into information

on what anyone is doing at any given

time. Sound creepy? With alerts like

this, some might think so the Deacon

Taylor the notifications as you see

fit. The homeowner can then select

who is going to receive the alerts

through the app. There is a choice

as to whether you want to be able to

see this video movement or see it in

some rooms are not others or whether

you only want to receive an alert

when something has happened. But is

this really what people want?

We

initially provide a lot of

information but it ended when we

lost one of our test customers. They

didn't want to continue after we

told the husband something about the

wife or vice-versa so we learned the

hard way that it is a bad idea to

get into the couple 's relations. So

instead of helping husbands care

about wives or wives care about

husbands, we help both of them care

about who they normally care, like

kids, pets and parents.

So if this

software can identify people and

what they are doing, then it could

prove useful for controlling the

Smart home. To start with, though,

checking all is well in your house

but not spying on your partner seems

to be a reasonable place to start.

This now, recently we have seen a

couple of interesting ideas on

medical visualisation is. One was a

pill sized sensor which can be

swallowed and gives real-time

information on the gas content of

your digestive system. Excuse me.

Two years ago I watched the world's

first VR surgery were medical

students are invited to observe the

operation in action. The main

selling point of this in mercy of

virtual reality is it puts you into

places you would rarely get to

experience.

Unless you are scrubbed

in, you are not touching the

patients. In another room, looking

over the surgeon's shoulder but with

this, you are looking on top of the

patient and seeing what the surgeon

is doing.

Since then, surgeon in

charge Shafi Ahmed has moved on to

the new lens. The data from the

patient's scans is also overlaid,

allowing them to consult on the

operation. Research is at Imperial

College London are looking at the

VR, to enhance the surgeon's ability

to visualise some of the hard to

perform operations. The team used

medical scan results to create

visualisation is of bones and blood

vessels and muscles. Surgeons with

headsets can see the schedules

overlaid on the patients in the

theatre.

The first time I used this,

it blew me a rave. It's an

extraordinary new way of seeing the

world around you and interacting

with it. We were acutely aware of

wearing a headset. It's a heavy

device for a long period so some of

the feedback, maybe it's just

selected components of the surgery.

Not all the time. There might be

that one moment where you need that

level of precision.

At the moment it

is still being trialled in research

hospitals. The hope is this sort of

visualisation Tech will improve

overall position and recovery time.

There is always a lot of initial

excitement about this technology but

what we need to show is that it

saves time, it gives better patient

outcomes and ultimately is something

we cannot just do in specialist

centres but we can roll out to other

hospitals.

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