Across the UK, across Continental North America, at around the world, on the internet, by webcast, and by podcast, my name is Howard Hughes, and this is the return of the unexplained.

Well, I'm recording this still in the heatwave here in the UK. It seems to have gone on for an awful long time, and if you don't have air conditioning and of course most of our homes don't hear, it makes everything that you do really difficult.

So I'm sorry if I sound a little breathy and a little hot on this edition. It's probably going to make no sense to you if you're somewhere where it's cold at the moment, maybe in the southern hemisphere.

But we've had weeks of hot here, and various experts have had their say about why that is, and how long it may continue for. But that's another subject.

No shoutouts on this edition of the unexplained apart from one, Anne Marie got in touch, and she asked me to do something that it's a great pleasure to do to say happy birthday to David Wall.

It was a big listener, big fan of this show. David, thank you very much for that, and I just want to wish you personally the greatest 2018 into 2019 possible.

I hope that everything sorts itself out nicely for you, and you have a wonderful year to come. So happy birthday, David Wall from myself, and from Anne Marie too.

Thank you, Anne Marie, for getting in touch and telling me about David.

This edition we have a special guest, a man who's at the cutting edge of the world of robotics. His name is Dylan Glass.

And even if you're not aware of it or you don't remember, you might have read about him in a number of British newspapers over the last six months or so.

That's how I discovered him and his work. He is somebody who's worked not only in the US, but also in that crucible of development for robotic technology, Japan.

He's got a track record as long as your arm about all of this. Check him out online. Dylan, G L A S Dylan Glass is his name.

At the moment, he's a senior robotics software architect at future Y industries, a research division of Huawei, big of course, international technology company in Silicon Valley.

He was previously a senior researcher in social robotics at Hiroshi Ishiguro laboratories at ATR and a guest associate professor at the intellectual rather the intelligent probably intellectual to robotics laboratory at Osaka University.

He's got a much longer curriculum VTi resume than that, but I think that probably gives you a picture of the man we're about to speak with.

He was best known this year for his work in the development and execution of a robot called Erica. That's all I'm going to say about Erica for now and all I'm going to say about him.

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Okay, let's get to San Francisco now completely different time of day in another part of our globe and talk with Dylan Glass about robotics. Dylan, thank you for doing this.

Thank you for inviting me.

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