Summary
Seven pioneers of artificial intelligence gathered at St James's Palace to receive the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, presented by King Charles. Zoe Kleinman was there. In this week's edition you can hear Zoe talk to the 'godmother' of AI, Professor Fei-Fei Li, and Jensen Huang, the head of the world's most valuable company, Nvidia.
Also on Tech Life this week: how useful can robots be in space ? And the racing cars revving up in Abu Dhabi without any drivers onboard.
Presenter: Chris Vallance Producer: Tom Quinn
(Image: A photo of King Charles at the prize ceremony in London. Credit: Reuters)
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:07.3 | Hello, I'm Kimberly Wilson. |
| 0:09.7 | I'm a psychologist, and in my new podcast, Complex, I'll be your guide through all the information |
| 0:15.6 | and misinformation that's out there about mental health. |
| 0:19.0 | I'm joined by expert guests covering topics from people |
| 0:22.5 | pleasing to perfectionism, burnout to empathy, to find tangible advice so we can understand |
| 0:28.5 | ourselves a little better. Complex with me, Kimberly Wilson. Listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:35.7 | Hello and welcome to TechLife on the BBC World Service, |
| 0:39.6 | the programme about technology and how it's changing all our lives. |
| 0:43.6 | I'm Chris Valence. |
| 0:44.9 | This week, TechLife infiltrates an actual royal palace |
| 0:48.8 | and hobnobs with tech royalty, |
| 0:51.1 | including the boss of the world's most valuable company, |
| 0:55.1 | Jensen Huang, |
| 1:01.5 | of Envidia. We meet a new breed of astronaut. Right at the top, I guess it almost looks like a set of eyes. We have our sensors, our cameras. Yeah, it's kind of an unusual looking robot, which I think is |
| 1:07.0 | one of the cool parts about it. Two young engineers tell us about the robot helpmate |
| 1:11.7 | they're sending into space. |
| 1:14.3 | And we travel to the sun-baked starting grid |
| 1:17.2 | of the Yasmarina racetrack in the United Arab Emirates |
| 1:20.5 | to find out about the motorsport with no human drivers. |
| 1:26.9 | Music with no human drivers. |
| 1:49.1 | St James's Palace. St James's Palace in central London was built by the English king Henry VIII. |
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