Hello, this is Bertie and I'm here with some big news. I've written a book that's just been published.

It's called Undercover Robot, my first year as a human. And when I say I've written it, what I really mean is that I co-wrote it with my old friend, well, he's not that old, but his name is David Edmonds. So let me introduce you to my collaborator and friend,

David. Hi, Stoy. I am actually that old, but anyway, we'll pass over that. David, perhaps

you can tell the audience a little bit about undercover robot. Well, undercover robot is about

a girl called Dottie, and Dottie's 11 years old, and the thing you need to know about Dottie is that she's not actually a girl, she's a robot and she's been designed by a professor Katnip who is kind of like her dad. And if Dottie can survive for a year at school, without being identified, uncovered as a robot,

she and Professor Kattnip will win a huge amount of money.

She lives with Professor Katnip's family who don't know that she's a robot.

And at school most people are taken in, but there's one boy, isn't there, who's really onto her.

Yes, there's a guy called Martin Strange, who is trying to expose her. And I should explain that if you actually spot a robot and identify the robot correctly,

you win $10,000. So people are on the lookout to see who might be a robot in their school. It turns out

that there are five robots around the world who are all trying to win this prize. And there

were people trying to out them. Okay. So I haven't mentioned this yet. But David, you're a philosopher,

aren't you? And you've published quite a few books, some of them best-selling books, on philosophy. And our book has quite a lot of philosophy in it, doesn't it? It's got a lot of philosophy, but quite well hidden. But the basic issue is quite philosophical, which is whether a robot can actually be like a human. Is there something special about human beings that

means robots can never copy them? Or could have really brilliantly designed and built robot

actually not only pretend to be like a human being, but to all intents and purposes, be just like a human being? Because Dottie is very nearly like a human being, but to all intents and purposes, be just like a human being.

Because Dottie is very nearly like a human being, but she gets a few things wrong.

And some of those things raise lots of questions in philosophy.

What about Dottie's first meal at the Katnip family?

How can just having supper raise philosophical questions?

Well, Dottie gets into trouble very early on because she doesn't understand etiquette

that you're supposed to put your knife in the right hand and the fork in the left hand,

at least in British culture. The odd thing about etiquette is that in other societies,

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