A Robotic Reality

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

Science Radio, Engineering, Naked Scientists, Natural Sciences, Technology, Life Sciences, Health & Fitness, Medicine, Science

4.6 • 957 Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

2022 has been heralded as the golden era of robotics. In this episode of The Naked Scientists you'll see how futuristic machines are already employed throughout industry to make our lives better. This isn't a tech review of Alexa, but instead a glimpse at pinpoint-accurate surgical arms completing tricky operations on human patients and tiny robots that allow food to swallow itself into your stomach. Gulp. In the news this week, the worst case of Avian Flu recorded in Europe, a Sea Dragon unearthed in Rutland UK and fish that no longer need their L plates to get on the road... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	All engine running.
0:04.0	running.
0:05.0	Absolutely genius.
0:06.0	Welcome.
0:07.0	This is the show where we bring you science.
0:09.0	What that essentially means is
0:11.0	Discoveries, advances, research, technology, unbelievable. is where we bring you the latest breakthroughs in science technology and medicine with me
0:23.6	Chris Smith and with Harry Lewis. This week a COVID sensor that clips onto your
0:28.3	lapel and fish that can drive. I bet they're having a whale other time.
0:33.0	Don't go there.
0:34.0	Also, the roles that robots are increasingly playing in our lives.
0:37.0	We're going to get a look at one of the world's most advanced surgical robots.
0:40.0	Talk to the team behind Boetim at Boat Face that's going to explore under the Antarctic ice and we meet a robotic musician
0:47.0	You've never heard twinkle little star sound so good the naked Scientists Podcast is powered by UKfast.co.uk.
0:57.0	But first with COVID hogging the headlines, what would under normal
1:07.0	circumstances be a big story has been flying very much under the radar and
1:11.5	that's bird flu. Europe is currently witnessing an outbreak on a massive scale and the UK is involved too.
1:17.0	The cause is the H5N1 strain of the influenza virus which doesn't at the moment spread well among humans
1:24.9	but the situation is alarming because the virus could adapt to us and begin to spread
1:29.6	possibly triggering a parallel pandemic alongside COVID, perish the thought.
1:35.0	But there's another aspect of this, which is why these viral outbreaks are happening now,
1:39.6	and are we doing enough to stop them?
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